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I feel it there at the outer edge of
the city of heaven, tracing its paths
against the indelible sky. I know when
it passes over head and I know that were
I to travel with it I would be no burden,
for my body is without organs. Let me go.
Let me travel with you and as Peter sleeps
we shall slip through the gates. I will
carry the sample case. I will learn every
line of the sales pitch. Together we shall
go door to door among the blue towers and
the doorbells will play the forgotten
threnodies of Orpheus for Eurydice. The
empty suburbs of heaven will echo with
sound of the ringing bells. The saints will
come sleepy-eyed to their doors in their
bathrobes and slippers.
Together we shall sell them the complete
set. We will spare them nothing. We will
charge them full retail price. We will
calculate the sales tax. And, of course,
the substantial shipping fee. The prices
we exact will be exorbitant, the
commission on each sale will furnish palaces.
But the saints shall have the wisdom of our
infernal books, their eyes will be open and
they shall know their bodies.
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