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@@@@@I watched the Channel 6 talking head back in the studio say, "Royal Bonnier, a legal crusader who has won half a dozen supposedly unwinnable pro bono cases, said he would make every effort to exclude the following video, shot by a security camera behind Bealls Department Store, from the trial And that damned thing started againThe kid crosses from right to left with the pack on her backBrown emerges from the rampway and takes her by the wristShe looks up at him and appears to ask him a questionAnd that was when the itch descended on my missing arm like a swarm of bees 443 I cried out - in surprise as well as agony - and fell on the floor, knocking both the remote and my sandwich-plate onto the rug, scratching at what wasn't thereOr what I couldn't get atI heard myself yelling at it to stop, please stopBut of course there was only one way to stop itI got on my knees and crawled for the stairs, registering the crunch as one knee came down on the remote and broke it, but first changing the stationTo CMT: Country Music TelevisionAlan Jackson was singing about murder on Music RowTwice going up the stairs I clawed for the banister, that's how there my right hand wasI could actually feel the sweaty palm squeak on the wood before it passed through like smoke Somehow I got to the top and stumbled to my feet I flicked all the light-switches up with my forearm and staggered to my easel at a half-assed runThere was a partly finished Girl and Ship on itI heaved it aside without a look and slammed a fresh blank canvas in its placeI was breathing in hot little moansSweat was trickling out of my hairI grabbed a wipe-off cloth and flapped it over my shoulder the way I'd flapped burp-rags 444 over my shoulder when the girls were smallI stuck a brush in my teeth, put a second one behind my ear, started to grab a third, then picked up a pencil insteadThe minute I started sketching, the monstrous itch in my arm began to abateBy midnight the picture was done and the itch was gone