The Prince & the Life/Leaf

Portrait of fortune-daydreaming and wrought risk-world decisions for a 'chance' magic and an Earthling expression of streets/culture intuitions (simple) kitchens.

A street-fortunes magic/imagination story (fiction) loosely-drawn from the self-determination superstitiousness concepts/themes/images from the searing/unusual American betrayals and idealism crime-psyche humanist film The Grifters (John Cusack). 

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"Friends, my name's Amlan Satan, and I'm a Slovak-Algerian Bostonian-Catholic and sports-investor with a newfound interest in Wall-St. I acquired after my upstart-racer company (Arklow) went from Churchill-Downs first-time surprise win to becoming a millionaire knot(s) for social-media comment (for the Ego!). Well, I felt the horse-inspiration (suddenly) and opted to translate this newfound sports 'environment' optimism to finding some 'cool' Wall-St. machinery for American Dreams intuition and decided to invest in Ford during the '09 mini-crash, during which the company soared from $1-15/share (wow). I felt something...Selfie-like."

LIBRARIAN (Shelbye): I dunno if this is half truth, friend.

ME (Amlan Satan): Lady-librarian of love near Logan...we fly to Brussels for tea.

LIBRARIAN: Arklow for Mister Ford, eh?

ME (Amlan Satan): Belgian waffles, ha.

LIBRARIAN: You're an American dreamer.

ME (Amlan Satan): Let's make an American Dream, Shelbye.

LIBRARIAN: Why Brussels, Amlan Satan?

ME (Amlan Satan): That's what the signs told me; I'm Catholic; Arklow's knit(s).

LIBRARIAN: Selfie-like (for Heaven/Hell)?

"Friends, I grew up with a 'fantastic' love of writers, especially the unusual/offbeat works of Charles Dickens and Edith Wharton; and well, I gained a fortune-streets 'feeling' from their work concerning the tailoring of fashion with commerce-civilization superstitions, and Shelbye (my New England library lady-friend) was to become my cinema-culture 'currency' for doubt."

AIRPORT SECURITY (Logan): You swapped the baron's gem with a replica, fool.

ME (Amlan Satan): I'm to Brussels with Shelbye (only); I left the baron a treat!

AIRPORT SECURITY (Logan): I'm to believe this 'exotic' lamb-curry is for God.

ME (Amlan Satan): The baron of New England needs some earthy-gossip, art.

AIRPORT SECURITY (Logan): And you're his pen-pal Artful Dodger he read about.
ME (Amlan Satan): Airport work in the Homeland has you too tasteless/cynical!

AIRPORT SECURITY (Logan): This better be Super Bowl...for Earth, prince-man.

ME (Amlan Satan): Ask Shelbye, I am a prince (descendant!)...thanx.

AIRPORT SECURITY (Logan): Maybe this is fair for fare, prince...Facebook-like.

ME (Amlan Satan): Life's a balance between grifters and coaches, surely (thanx).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)