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Toodles woke up feeling very depressed;
hardly surprising since her latest boyfriend was found dead along the
Cross-Bronx Expressway, all along the expressway. There were still bits
of him the police hadn't found yet. They had been her favorite bits
too. Toodles got up and locked Kadinisky in the closet. This was very
difficult as Picasso and Matisse were just crawling to get out, so she
put them down with a bullwhip, the miserable creatures. Rainbow, Toodles'
friend, came over later in the afternoon and noticed she was out of
sorts, being dressed in nothing but shaving cream. "I feel so funky."
Toodles told Rainbow, so Rainbow tried to amuse her by dropping pennies
on the heads of pedestrians and shouting rude tongue twisters. Toodles
and Rainbow shortly thereafter elected to go and find a friendly game
of spin-the-chicken; a new fad that had lately hit town and had the
animal rights activists blowing up bus stations in retaliation. Toodles
and Rainbow started to paint the town red but they quickly ran out of
that color, so the city wound up a kind of particolor with green neon
speckles. Rainbow was whitewashed, there's poetic irony for you. The
two were never arrested, however, even though the rooster pressed charges
for the plucking he got. High officials had been bribed and raped and
after the kamikaze monkeys jumped out of the airplanes in defense of
the president, nobody very much cared anyway.
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