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'''AND I AM A . . .''' Mechanic
 
'''AND I AM A . . .''' Mechanic
  
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'''WHAT'S BEEN KEEPING YOU AWAKE?''' An incessant arrhythmic clicking sound coming from the garage below my room. Metal on metal, metal on concrete, metal on glass, metal on wooden workbenches. ''clickclickclickclick'' Whenever I try to sleep, it is there.
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'''WHAT'S BEEN KEEPING YOU AWAKE?''' Teeth. If I close my eyes they gnash at me. So many teeth. So strong and sharp . . .
  
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'''WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO YOU?''' I was taking apart the carburetor on a Ford Torino when out of nowhere these intricate bugs, maybe locusts, made of finely fitted copper, brass, and iron parts came swarming out of the engine, flying in mu face, and then vanishing about the garage.
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'''WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO YOU?''' I was in my practice. Routine cleaning. And right there in my chair, the fellow just changed. His face went black and featureless except for a gaping maw of gleaming teeth lunging at me as a boy and bicycle made of newsprint shouted, "Extra, Extra! Patient Eats Dentist!"
  
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'''WHAT'S ON THE SURFACE?''' Medium build guy with a partially shaved head and neck tattoos  with a service professional voice and smile that both could have gone to Harvard. They never falter until I give them ''permission'' to falter.
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I stabbed him over and over with the dental instrument in my hand. Blood everywhere. No black face. No Paper Boy. Just my patient. Dead by my hand.
  
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'''WHAT LIES BENEATH?''' Fraying filters and an ever deepening chasm of pure exhaustion and mounting frustration and this gibbering laughter that seems to come from everywhere and nowhere inside me at once.
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'''WHAT'S ON THE SURFACE?''' Scrawny doctor fellow with a nervous demanor.
  
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'''WHAT IS YOUR PATH?''' I like to set things right. I fix things when I can, but the skills that make me effective at that are the same skills that make me effective at breaking things that are whole. I prefer to set things right.
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'''WHAT LIES BENEATH?''' Viciously self preserving sociopath that will put out the life of another to preserve his own without a thought.
  
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'''Question 6?''' Wordy words of worderton . . .
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'''WHAT IS YOUR PATH?''' Rendering toothless anything that might bite me, bringing people to the pacifistic worldview of those who must subsist on pudding.
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'''WHAT DO YOU DESIRE MOST?''' Peace and safety and an utter freedom from fear.
  
 
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