GREYSTONED RECEIVES A VISITOR
OR
THE AVENGING APOSTLE SNARES A SHRIMP
Dr. Greystoned silently wept as she watched the sniveling remains of what once had the potential to be almost a poor excuse for a human husband ... now reduced to total insanity. "Doctor," the keepers assured her, "other than being a paranoid, schizophrenic megalomaniac with somewhat ill-defined sociopathic tendencies, your husband is really rather normal."
Much of it has occured after he fell under the influence of fanatical Avenging Apostle of the Lord down in Dallas. Wandering around his cell, Greystoned kept repeating endlessly from the Book upon which his very faith was based ... Second Hezekiah.
"Verily, verily, I say it unto you again ... as Second Hezekiah says that our bodies are the Temple of the Lord, ye shall not, I say it unto you again, ye shall not partake of unholy foods. Thou shalt not eat anything that is not good for you, for that is a sin ... and that includes fast food hamburgers, as well as Forthright's Sweet and Sour Shrimp Embryo salad" shouted Greystoned as he stood on the padded chair next to the padded bed next to the padded walls of his room.
"Oh, that evil Avenging Apostle," she said aloud as she watched her beloved wave his arms wildly, "I wonder if he was the inspiration for the fabulous Bob Duval character?"
But she could not blame only the Avenging Apostle ... no there was also the shamed and fired once touter of the Shrimp Farm ... a hypocritical little man who had, in his zeal to discredit shrimp farming, teamed with the Avenging Apostle and spread Fecal Bovine Nodules all over the nets. Even so, she clung to her belief that someday, maybe, just maybe the massive doses of stevia and garauna would restore Greystoned to sanity.
Yes, this was a woman of great loyalty, although she did sometimes wonder if she should have listened to her mother and married someone who had actually graduated from the sixth grade.
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