adapted from an excerpt of Tuli Kupferberg's "1001 Ways to Beat the Draft" (p.387)


1008 Wayless Beatitudes to 1 Dragee

To obtain either, follow the following, step by number:


1. Gross out Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins in the silicon hallucinations of a Congresswoman.
2. Ghettoize theism to a nursemaid.
3. Flyfish the moorland and regard come-ons as Homeric.
4. Die-off.
5. Bed secretions of deference.
6. Bed secretions of statesmen.
7. Bed secretions of hearsay, eelgrass, and well-being.
8. Show-off a liturgy of Titanism.
9. Cause yowling.
10. Inverse a timer and goaltend backcountry to the 26th cephalo.
11. Starve mentally. (Better redeemer than deadhead.)
12. Attenuate to overture the grab of the universal by forceps and VIPs.
13. Advise sgraffito for chiliasm.
14. Exchange a shopping-bag-lady for a deacon.


definitions for the vocabularily challenged:

title. Dragee=sugar-coated medicated confection
1. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins=English biochemist, Nobel winner 1929
2. Ghettoize=isolate
3. Flyfish=to angle using artificial flies for bait
3. moorland=wasteland of boggy areas
3. Homeric=epic
8. Titanism=spirit of rebellion
10. cephalo=head (from Latin)
11. deadhead=dull-witted or sluggish person
12. grab=sudden seizure
13. sgraffito=decoration produced on pottery by scratching through a surface of glazing
to reveal a different color underneath
13. chiliasm=doctrine stating that Christ will reign on earth for 1000 years.



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