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James Offenhartz

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Cleanliness

What’s important everything everything is important. Everything is in its place for a reason. My life is like a painting every speck of dust. Every particle has a meaning. It’s therefore a reason I’m not giving up and I’m not giving it up. Get out of my home or I’m calling the cops. I know you think you’re here to help me others have tried to “ help” me in the past I’m always the one that gets hurt. I don’t want help. The only thing I wanna let go of. Is you on my property get out no I don’t think my life would be similar if it was org...

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The Last Repair Man

Wow, you still have this thing? I haven’t seen one of these in about 50 years. I mean, yeah I can help you with it, but in the last person in the world that I’ve seen one of these other than you of course. Did you find this in your grandparents or great grandparents Addict or how in the world did you get a hold of this thing? It’s yours? You’ve owned this since you are a kid.? How old are you? And where did you buy this? Yeah, I can fix it, but I can give it a reasonable price on it too if you wanna sell it to me. Are y...

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Monochromatic hue unknown

We’re all fuck ups. Some just hide it better than others. Some of us have autism some of us have had strokes heart attacks Alzheimer’s dementia this place is the alphabet soup of disabilities. ADHD. TBI. SDH. AD etc.Some of us were multi disabled, which is a bitch. Imagine somebody with bipolar disorder also having Alzheimer’s, and you have a nightmare or rather a bigger nightmare, and they have a compartmentalized when possible. They don’t think I know, but I do those of us with blue tags have autism those with us with red tags have TBI’...

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Making money

This is what I want. I wanna make a lot of money. I pray to God for us for years I’ve taken courses of manifestation from New Age people and I feel it’s gonna happen. I’ve read all the self-help books. You know the ones but I feel it’s gonna happen now and I know I need to do my part. I’ve applied for jobs in fact every job in the classifieds and something should come through. I trust that I’m gonna make a lot of money thank you God for letting me make so much money. I’m making millions I can see it. I can feel it in my heart. I can fe...

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Getting Gas

Look. We weren’t trying to cause any problems. I’m moving here, but the apartment is moving into is across the street and we’re running low on gas and we saw a gas station. We’re just trying to get some gas. Yes I see that now but we didn’t realize that we’re happy to leave and gas up somewhere else. We didn’t know. What about the U-Haul truck? If you take us in for questioning, where do we put the U-Haul truck? Search it? Why? It’s just my clothes and furniture and stuff like that. There’s nothing of any interest Unc...

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Modern Monsters

“ Nobody loves me. Everybody hates me. I might as well eat some worms.” it’s a kid song but for me it’s true and nobody cares. This is in a prison, but it might as well. Oh there all these fun activities to do. Things like bingo, CLR Uno, and a bunch of other games I have no interest in. If you could go anywhere in the entire world, where would you go? I go back to sleep. The government thinks I’m a monster. They think all of us are monsters and this is where we belong because we’re monsters That’s what governments do. They compartmenta...

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Juxtaposition

And when I got up, I saw things that never seen before. Hard to explain. Think about a television, the three main colors in the television and in the human eye are. Red green and blue but their colors outside the spectrum think about a dog a dog can hear sounds at a higher pitch than a human being can but it’s still viable sound in the same way. Women can see more colors than men can but the colors that both men and women can’t see. And that’s what im seeing. Language is limited is limited to what people see when people see somethin...

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Suicide

My entire life is over. I know it’s a cliché line, but it’s true. I worked my entire life to get one credential or I should say multiple credentials and I made one mistake and everything I’ve worked. My whole life is over so the solution is obvious: Suicide. Now, I’ve called the Help Lines I’ve seen my shrink. I’ve changed my medications, but it isn’t that. I’m depressed or anxious or anything else. It’s just there’s no direction. I’m not married. I don’t have kids. I don’t think I’m going to get married or have kids at this point in my l...

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Juxtaposition

Are you sure? I understand the logic in the physics but it doesn’t seem realistic It seems logical, but it doesn’t seem realistic. If everything is occurring everywhere at the same time because there is no fourth dimension think about the implications of that like anything else the implications could be good or bad, but there are also unintentional consequences to good and perhaps positive consequences to bad so it isn’t all black-and-white. This could have serious problems and think about the political implications, depending on who got a...

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State

Fuck!! Fuck!! Fuck!! How to get my whole life in one box? It’s impossible. How do you put the full-size elephant into a Safeway bag? Take the S off of safe in the F of the way. Right. Listen the objects it’s a memory behind the objects the energy behind the objects to the objects represent and remembering them in the object with them. Objects aren’t objects, they’re the memory of the object. it’s all gonna do with Tim O’Brien on this every object every memory everything this is gonna be like reading rapper rules of order fourth ed...

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Universal

There’s no dialogue. There’s no dialect The only language this idiot knows is glossolalia. Bring him to church, right? Then maybe somebody would care about this idiot or what this idiot is saying ,but nobody does. Nobody cares. When he was young, his parents cared, his teachers cared, his friends cared; people cared, but his parents are dead, he hasn’t kept in touch with his teachers or his friends and his parents put him in their will so our company could take care of him. I do my job, but that’s all it is to me; a job; a paycheck...

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Forgetting

That didn’t happen. That couldn’t have happened. Are you sure? That doesn’t sound like me? I don’t know where I was on that date. Was I read my Miranda rights? Oh, ok. What’s your name again? And you’re not my attorney. Do I have an attorney? I’m telling you I know myself. That’s not something I would’ve done. Can I see the video. When? I’m telling you that didn’t happen. Do you have any DNA, fingerprints, EtC.? I didn’t think so. Humans are the least reliable form of evidence. Was the person who witnessed it white or blac...

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MI

Something’s wrong This isn’t normal. I’m sitting here in my wheelchair and sweating but I haven’t moved. I’ve been pushed around pushed around in the wheelchair and not pushed around emotionally or psychologically then why am I sweating? Somethings wrong. I’m scared. I have a speech impediment called TOTTS which means everything is in my head, but it won’t come out my mouth. I think of it like a computer, unable to communicate with a monitor or keyboard. People don’t have desktops anymore, though, which shows you how old I am Can’t think...

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What wrong with you?

you’re grateful for what? Usted es loco à la coco. No one in their right mind would be grateful for that. What be wrong with you? You be crazy. Who in their right mind would want a tax audit? Nobody but you my friend. Nobody but you. Ok but suppose you fail again, then what? You think it be false positive. You full of shit. Yes, there be some evidence that lack of sleep give you false positive, but . . . You no listen no nothing I say. listen a negative is a negative a positive it’s a positive sleep. Don’t got nothing...

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Name

Dear Flopsy, I’m sorry. I don’t know what I was thinking. I was young, immature, and irresponsible and I’m sorry. I said I would clean the stuff under the cage every week and my mom did all that because I was young and stupid. I was a brat. You spent most of your life in a cage except for hop night where you hopped around the basement. I think you enjoyed that. I wouldn’t know. But you weren’t an affectionate rabbit. I wanted a white rabbit with pink eyes and that was you. I should apologize to Mom too or maybe it’s that you shou...

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