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Sudetenland Tales
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Preset Tales
“Spick and spandy two bedrooms with brand hite “professional” woman; new Ikea furniture and grey-green carpets sprinkled all over with ...... never mind. Section 8 acceptable, if not preferred. Just $3,100 per month.”
That was the net ad answered by the 60 year old, single and grossly disappointed, White dowager, Carol Preset, concerning the apartment in “hip” Sugarland, Sudetenland. Her “OK” response, site unseen, was complicated only by a seemingly irrelevant question, which asked; “What if you woke up and found you were black?”
She replied; “I’d knife a random honky, blame his kind for my shortcomings, and go back to sleep.”
She was welcomed to leave her mainland, bourgeois dwelling and move to Sugarland. For the first time she could remember, she was as elated as she had been when years ago, Jimmy Carter, had preached “restraint ..... restraint,” while simultaneously bending over for the merchants of camel doo.
Despite any appearances to the contrary, she was wakeful and that wretched series of Musk messages kept throbbing in her head. Her ability to shut down had never been equal to its desire, but its sense she knew, if it had any sense, a gypsy thing; wild and