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I'm Not Who I Say I Am, Please Stop Me!

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#occupy, yeah, yeah! I'm there,

#resist, yeah, yeah! I'm there, too.

I'm here for the cause, what's yours?

I love you, you love me. Show me the money!

I want to go to war. War is hot. War is hip.

We're all for one and one for all.

My daddy went to war before I was born

now he's gone and Mommy's crying on the phone

the government wants us to be safe and free

but they won't tell us what we're fighting for.

I don't know why I want to go to war so bad

maybe it's just because everybody else is.

We're free range chicken hawks on the loose again

can war be far behind? O, I hope so.

I was crestfallen. I was dumbfounded. I felt under renewed pressure and went to the toilet. When I came back I was stunned. I read both poems. Gulp. I actually liked the one Sudo "co"-wrote. Wow. Look at the way it reused my second line. Like a taunt almost. Thank Christ Sudo can't do sonnets or I'd be hanging myself now.

Call it some kind of incipient masochism, but I soldiered on to see what the f*cker would do with my fiction. I pulled out of long storage one of few flash fiction pieces. I figured if Sudo could make heads or tails of this I might just go beyond the trial period I was in and lay down paypal cash. The story is called Coma by the Sea. Sudo only wants the premise, rather than a sample this time. And the premise goes like this:

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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