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THE ADVENTURES OF CUCUMBER MAN: EPISODE #3

The Cut

When are you going to get a REAL job?

3 min readJul 16, 2026

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By the author with AI

Hi Mum, yeh, I made the cut. I’ve got a real job and I even get my own computer!

Cut, cut, cut.
Paste, paste, paste.
Don’t let all this digital garbage go to waste.

Cut the string
Cut the chord
The Mother of Invention comes at the moment you get bored.

Cut the crap
Take a nap
Find somewhere that Google hasn’t put on the map.

I’m alone right now
But that is fine
You need to be comfortable spending time in your own mind.

Copy, copy, copy
Makes your life sloppy
Cut, paste and copy
Off that old floppy

Save as this, save as that
Where’s it at?

That’s a question I’ll have to ask, of my cat.

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Robert Gowty
Robert Gowty

Written by Robert Gowty

Dawdling procrastinator who loiters idly, lingering on the relaxing diversions of a life half lived. When not half asleep, I write, make music and art.

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Submit transgressive fiction & find Redemption! The last resort for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me. I lift my pen beside the golden door!