opened a box tightly packed with old science fiction paperback books  a treasure trove

                                                                                            Kuttner Biggles Simak Dick Pohl Bradbury Cordwainer Smith Heinlein Silverberg Sturgeon del Rey Lieber Blish Leinster Kornbluth Campbell

it smelled like oldcheese  unwashed feet

    it smelled great

GREAT

         theres a spectrum

EVERYONEs on it

Limburger didnt gag him

a filled plastic diaper pail didnt gag him

only onceimmediately remedied pussy

                                          after a strenuous hike they had intended to camp overnight fell asleep before the fire were woke by rain

reason

          not an excuse

immediately remedied

as a boy workers broke the street excavated a sewer line put up horses to keep people away when they left

a boy is not people

got a flashlight

descended wandered the cavernous sewersystem for hours

when he got home late that night came into the house in through the enclosed backporch off the kitchen

                                                                                                            Where have ya . . get outside get out of those clothes hose yourself off.  his mother she and his father were in the kitchen having coffee and cake He smells like ass. his mother

he didnt notice

reason

          not an excuse

by then his nose had been broken in fights with older boys who beat him

                                                                                 eventually

he remedied those defeats

    sense spectrums exist

                             sensespectrumsexist  PRETTY

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