A copy of Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift lay in his lap.
The woman beside him wore a string bikini bottom.
Her unbuttoned cotton shirt had fallen open
_____revealing large well formed white breasts.

The irregular wide blue scar that traversed his left calf
was familiar. All I could think of
were gopher error messages and the words of an old song:

"true love, true love."_____

_____"Cannot connect to host balrog.dfv.rwth-aachen.de, port 70"
Connection failed: _____Connection refused".

I looked out to sea.

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