| Never Again
an excerpt of a 200pp novel where no one word can be used more than once. TransPac bank's exit confirmed tempestuous rap excluding additional agency-sanctioned assignments; blacklisting confirms art's delusive conceit sassing others' comprehensibility failures & forgiving one's own. Reasonable expectation dictates unremitting rejections. Humbly rakish seersucker suitcoat outfits jobseeker. Eluding tempagent-mediated compuscreenings, snazzily attired longshot specialist takes direct action: classifieds, where worst-taste scenarios inveigle multidozen hungry droolers w/mouthfully bitter sweets. "6.66/hr. grndflr. opty./ltd.bfd." cattleprods stampede. Unrealistic insistences blithely decree undegreeable techschool diplomas, verifiable experiences slavishly mimicking these ad-stated elementarily stupid activities (ladling molten metals, dodging lava, inhaling toxic ethers), preferring non-preincarcerated noncombative military veterans w/minority ethnicities. Preposterousness lures unqualified applicant wearing crapshooter's jacket. Industrial-strength hellfires@beastly wage? Jobhunt anthropology discovers absurdist glee's perverse rewards. Trudging drudges astonish lone bicyclist, hereas unmotored transport quasi-ratifies suitcoated interloper's dilettantism & nonseriousness amongst jalopy & bus-driven hordes. Unemployment compensation punchcards excuse serfs' futilism: filling unfillable job-sought column w/checks insures incoming dole check's validity. Food/shelter basics cannot rationalize DeMillean extras queueing w/single role open. Breadline lottery fever infests gallows-humored shufflers lucidly debating Quixote v. Panza standpoints referencing shit-waged labor=impossible dream. Goal's paltryness exonerates non-attainment. Self-deployed adventure capitalist incants underbreath chant recognizing herein's prime-directed systematic fancy: present's participation bans thereafter's destiny. Hardcase exploited Parliaments, Kools, Luckies strike menthol solidarities smoking unquittable deadends. "S'pose dey scabbin'?" "Local's doin' da lapdog." "Wha? Workman's comp, 'dustrial' demnity, fuckin' turkey fo' Thanksgivin'." Laid-off forger briefs throng, attributing trickle-down generosity snidely. Youngish grandfather-type basso profundos vulcan mystique. Death-defying spillages enlivened drabness. ER excursions toured paininsulas, ailands, frightseeing tractions w/expenses paid (minus whopper deductible). Terrifier's gritty spinetinglers ennoble grunt gig's pathetic attraction. Apply-minded braves smirk "dat-so?" Smoke-signaled diatribes display warpaint. Scars brag. Paramortal wounds stipple cheeks, chests, bellies. Coarsely sewn lacerations reorder scissors/paper/rock hierarchies. Shards riposte blades, bulletholes parry slices, sawmill run-ins trump lawnmowered mishaps. Everybodies' anguishes memorialize pains overtaken & undergone. "Burns burn." Bassnote clefhanger muffles trebbling lookie-heres. Burnings' glass magnified concentrations excruciate. First-degree universally felt sunburns & secondclass stovetop blisterers constitute stepladdered wounderstandability foreshallowing #D's skyhigh agony. Ore-liquifying temperatures objectify epic hells. Dantely, forgemaster uplifts pantleg. Wrinkled, charred orangy pinkness unblackens natal brown. Hairless crenel's rubbery sheen, warping musculature, sagging rehinged artificialities approximate indistinguishable knee. Thigh-to-toe skin grafts seemingly replace flesh w/fisherman's patchwork waders. "Counta bein' stinko," sank job-injured claimant's lawsuit. "Employee shall forfeit disability coverage," conditionally began millworker contract's substance-abuser 8-page exclusion clause section, followed by 8-line perk section's November turkeys, Easter hams, & like-gauged shebangs. Simultaneously, corp. reorganization bankruptured unionmade truss. Chapter Eleven's takeaways de-instituted skill's wage-tied recognition, lowering payroll. Debt reshuffling buffaloed civic-blinded assessments dropping taxes companies not threatening emigration must pay. Relocation's south-of-the-border scare somehow cemented locacification, awarding steelmill's industry public service medallions neck-ribboned onto chestless, wobbled guts. Mexicali blackmail finessed mill's perpetuity. Courtroom upholdings pre-instated corp-friendly rulings, classically canonizing sainted partnerships & damning churchmouse poverties. Microeconomic aftershocks quake, splitting earth-shattering gape: waistband pistol? Ex-plaintiff protrudes undeniable butt, hernialike subcardigan, recalling Mae West's hard-on wishes, wrongly. Threshold's dilemma dawns red sky overhanging application's pre-procession. Magniprint questionaire's obstructive idiocy nitpicks brain w/detailed schoolyear & work-dated probes. Thinking jams. How-to books inadequately advise tipsters confronting imminent workstation violence (step one, yell, "Waaaaah!;" steps two-ten, skiddadle!). Officiously tidy lady sharpens schoolbus-yellow # twos. Hulky illiterates bite tongues, wrestle pencils. Long-standing forge-burnt gunslinger imaginatively strafes room. His "sidekick" procrastinates taddling; weapon's drama-principled spotting plots catharsis, councils cowardly fatalistic surrender. Object lesson CEO headshot begs justifiably, assuming psycho's sanity. Cowerever, fusillade chaotics ensure omnidirectional peril & recommend heroic tattle. Besides, after-the-fact accessory charge fixes cowardice's vagrant morals. Observing linear orderliness, stoolie scribbles suspicions, hastily describing gunsel in vita acta dating birth & school-termed brackets. Ignorable drek masks crucial intelligence. Secretary's dogpiled reshuffle buries crimespotter's shakily scrawled claxon. "Maam?" ahems urgency vainly. Pretensed omission necessitates recollected apform. "Y'all gots t'be top," flirts at whistleblower's overeagerness. Inverse-aligned boldface print jolts her. Jelly-kned reader buckles. Botched jackrabbit boundaway stalls would-be victim awaiting excuse's reprieve. Silence gives grim answer: glazed-eye, dank brow's fiend mien. Lock & load determination projects blood rays. Tension foreplays lead ejaculation. Plant manager's door whooshes upspun tornadoed papery leaves clearing desktop & clipboards. Dervishly whirling, ball-bellyed honcho joyously bellows high-pitched, airy directions. Exultant buyer's attitudinal conceitedness overweeningly pumps head's multi-gallon hatsize, conferring baby-scaled macrocephalic dimensions, seeings how he's scarcely 5-2. Nasal-toned bellower blinks demi-recognition. Hits dirt. Blasted steampipe squeals heat. Open-fire avenger jostles mid-stampede & steadies "house cleaning" aim (hyperextending business-termed euphemistic abuse). Panic-driven escapees hailed w/skull fragmented matter & sundry organic confetti stumble gasping liquid, clotted vapors. Big caliber dumdums excavate fleshes & repaint DutchBoy-coated interior's ecru/beige nondescript blandness w/red's brutally bland oxidized browns. Slithering, diving, writhing unshot fortunate flit. Banged yells connote wounding? Predeath moaning resignations shroud steamclouded umbral mists' dreamy pointilism. Hard-edged pistolshot cracks attack flatly, w/defiant nonresonance. Discrete small explosions interrupt blown pipe's onrushing furor. Annihilation's punctuality crisply disenchants comics' KABLAMMO-style mayhems. Bewilderment storms yard. Smoke-white nimbus postscripts skywritten cryptograms telling fires' potential spread. Sounds identified w/killing people blendably intermingle military-industrial droning. Bike unlocks. Air-packed tires celebrate life's flimsiest joy: continuing. © Doug Nufer |