[Lindel]

My final chapter’s uncompleted but I’m asking you to read it
Neither pastor nor the deacon could succeed to pacify my demons
Nay, I can’t provide the reasons for my sullen, morbid state
It’s like my mind’s horrid estate was tended to by Norman Bates
The chorus sang, I kneeled and prayed, but failed to seize the day
Painted brightly but inside I’m hardboiled like an Easter egg
Got a chip on the shoulder that’s a little bit more of the cry-on-me sort
Cuz life’s put me in more pressing situations than an ironing board
I’m not striving towards enlivening rewards on my broken path
Hopelessly overmatched by the open gashes from my stolen past
My emotions’ total lack of full compassion holds me back
It’s got me frozen in a child’s pose without the yoga mat
My woeful tact in social acts grows, in fact, I’m acting crazy
Been hampered lately by excuses thinner than packaged gravy
My hapless frailty has a way of aggravating my poor judgment
I’m like a snail, when outside my shell, I just feel more sluggish
My shortcomings get more crushing and soul sucking every day
Wish this fettered state was swept away by the heavy weight of a trebuchet
Suppress the rage and stress impatiently, wishing all this was done
But I’m too proud to take the pills, too scared to swallow the gun
Plus it’s a godless affront to the omniscient one who gave us breath
So I’ll wait, bereft, until fate collects its gainly bet on my tainted flesh
With waning strength, and unease I fight the struggle to sleep at night
As I sway through these days between the branches on the tree of life

The sky didn't load today. I stared straight at the screen
as binary code fell where the rain should of been.
It simulated a series of sums in substantial
chains of repeating numbers and fractals.
Hundreds of calculations began their descent
as I studied their patterns to exact what they meant.
The mathematical medley spread further afield
until every last geometric of Second World was revealed!
I searched my surreal surrounding amazed to discover
that this perfect ideal had been painted by numbers!
Every shape had a structural plan at it's basis
that made up the sum of a mathematical matrix.
These enigmatic equations were behind all that I saw
- the statutory basics of what had caused them to form.
This ordered conformity proved hard to resist
as I was sure there was more to it, so I started to think!
How did every part of this simulation work to a mandate
yet remain so largely in-sync with it's virtual landscape?
Second World was a man-made augmented reality
that was perfectly translated from a numerical tapestry.
Was there a connection I hadn't seen that was hidden as well?
I sensed that there had to be, so I continued to delve!
These algorithms all held predefined symmetries
from the patterned ridges on shells to the changing tides of the sea.
Even the spiralling sequence pine cones happened to have
- it was like they'd all speak the universal language of math!
These fractal-like patterns were a product of automation
manufactured en masse so they were functioning verbatim.
I studied the equations and how they related to each other
both the number of the nature, and the nature of the numbers.
Fascinated to uncover the building blocks of this digital zone
- was there a way I could adjust it, to the one we physically know?
I clicked to look closer, compare and contrast,
thinking this over as my avatar searched everywhere on the map.
It became fairly apparent in the use of this fresh search
that both worlds shared an elaborate numeral network!
I continued it a step further, looking at the characteristics
in the movement and tenure of our planetary systems.
They all have an elliptical structure they have to keep
it's a mathematical synergy that's governed by gravity.
The circumference they travel being exactly the same
is yet another example seen of these factors at play.
The galaxy's made up of constants and certainties
with math at the base of the logical world we see!
Once that anomaly first appeared for me to establish the fact
I knew the one universally spoken language was math!
Things didn't happen by chance, there was a method pertained
and the more I carried on asking, the more questions I raised.
Had the universe "invented" this matrix the day it first formed
or had we developed it later, to explain what we saw?
Did we make up the formula as a tool to depict with
or was this nature performing as it would do since existence?
The true coefficient is we still haven't answered its secret
but i'm damn sure it inhibits a mathematical sequence...


They had a routine with both playing a part
one would stand a few feet away from the mark.
The other came up and started blithering nonsense
making way for his partner to pick at their pockets!
The quick-fingered accomplice relieved the owners items
lifting the wallets he commandeered in total silence.
The thieves were both reliant on the other for success
but keep the coast in mind, as the punishment is death!
If they were rumbled the offenders would make light on their feet
and run to their Dickensian den to hide from the police.
It was here they tried out techniques and the items were opened
refining their deceitful ruse as they'd divide what was stolen.
There were tie pins and broaches, tobacco cases and tins,
all acquired in the hope of them one day making it rich.
The places they picked in and plundered for pence
were laden with riches, and more money than sense!
Blue-bloods were the best you could hope to pocket in
because of them revelling in their own incompetence.
Once they'd chose an obvious stooge who's wage looked decent
- a knowing nod and wink was exchanged between them...

The square that day was heaving so they quicken their great strides
while lying in wait to fleece him, hidden in plain sight!
They switch up and change sides, desperate to lay low,
yet inching their way right toward the depths of his waist coat.
Edging a stage closer and with all eyes on the job
there's not a second to waste so they strike on the spot!
Their timings like clockwork - their movement sudden and swift -
and as synchronised as the watch they were looking to lift!
They fluster the stiff just enough to distract him
- one bumping deliberately into him as the other’s distracting.
It’s shoved in his jacket and The Dip leaves unannounced
with his crooked companion left to deal with the crowd…

The easy-touch bounded and raised up an arm
climbing to his feet as he's shouting “Stay where you are!”
The Distraction, playing it calm, did as he said
hesitating to scarper to ensure The Dip was ahead.
“You pitiful wretch, you’ve stolen the watch!”
the victim exemplified as his mouth openly frothed.
“Show me your pockets!”
The distraction had nothing.
but that alone, if they got him, would show he had an accomplice.
“It’s one of His Majesty’s watches!” then pled the deceived
but realising it’s value and profit, The Distraction fled from the scene!
The gentry and regals try to keep up with him
as he heads for his secret bolt-hole to meet with The Dip.
The screams of these rich nobles follow him all of the way
down every street he'd commit to as he sought an escape.
As he nears the corner of Main Street he quickens his sprint -
climbing through the smallest of spaces to give them the slip!
The Distraction signalled The Dip, knocking on the stairs in repeat,
but was instantly distraught when he was nowhere to be seen…

The Distraction tears their retreat up, “I’ll kill him!” he pledged
as the heart he’d wear on his sleeve sinks in his chest.
He thinks for a second as he acknowledges this
- I bet The Dip had heard mention the watch was the King’s!
The dodgy delinquent had dishonoured their code
to prosper by pilfering from one of his own!
He'd took off with the golden watch upon hearing it’s worth
- what d'ya know, you can’t take a thief at his word!
The Distraction’s feelings were hurt as this imposture had cut deep
but he had got what he deserved, there’s no honour amongst thieves!

The darkness engulfed her beautiful skin
as she started to tumble through the abyss.
As she continued to spin toward the unknown
the high-pitch she vociferated caught in her throat.
The fall wasn't broken until such time had surpassed
that the poor thing awoke as she arrived with a crash.
Sideways she glanced to take in her surrounds
before trying to stand, only to find something pinning her down.
She winced at the mounting pressure applied to her back
but from this position she's powerless to try and react.
"There's no fighting this," ***kled an anonymous foe
"Where am I?" she had snapped "I want to go home!"
The voice dropped to a low octave, many times that which it had spoke,
and her body had froze as the ominous tone laughed "This is your home!"
Within that moment there was a sudden bursting of light
she blinked uncontrollably to find him stood over her with a scythe.
With one merciless strike the poor woman had been marked for death
where the curve of its knife-blade had passed and carved an X.
"Shall we start again?" the sarcastic sadist spat with malaise
as she grasped the scarring flesh with a hand to her face.
A sharp vascular pain jolted through the length of her being
as she tried to answer her jailer, only to find her strength had depleted.
"Don't you get it yet, heathen?" he hissed with a rasp
"You were sent here to me for your sins in the past,"
"Then kill me!" she panted. He snorts "Haven't you figured it out yet?"
"This is about wrath, dear girl - this isn't about death!"
His eyes were simmering round embers that seethe as he speaks
"I've witnessed the countless friends you've lied to, cheated and fleeced,"
"There's people I've seen help you..." the Devil sat and observed
"...only for you to repeat your deceit once their back had been turned!"
He glanced at the girl menacingly while he weighed up the facts.
"Maybe it's time I grant what you've earned," he paused. "I'll make you a pact,"
She waits for his gambit. "If you can climb from the pit,"
"and escape from the shaft, then I'll let you live!"
Right at that instant she was expelled from his hold
and blinded by pitch-blackness as it enveloped her whole.
Her senses on overdrive as she struggled to see
then fell on the broken glass shards under her feet.
They cut her to pieces, the stygian blood drying to scabs,
and her becoming numb to the feeling with the more time that elapsed.
Her slight little hands crept the crepuscular course
until they finally happened upon the foot of the wall.
Upward she crawled, as she'd cling to its edge,
pulling her wrought body up with everything she had left.
Her fingers were red and calloused, almost buckling under the strain,
but she picked up her head and then pushed through the pain.
It took her an age before her arrival at its peak
as she shuffled her weight slowly and started climbing to her feet.
"After all the times you were deceitful in those fables you'd tell,
and you don't know a liar when you meet one?" he scoffed.
"You're staying in Hell!"

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I watch from the edge of the tempered-glass ridge
- plotting revenge on the one that's kept me captive.
If you've ever had fish that you've placed in a tank
then I'll bet my back fin that they hate you for that!
The same thing must happen at every store within the city
"Take a look at this one, mom, isn't it pretty?"
"I want this little fishy!" the young nominal gasps
with sticky fingers insisting on prodding the glass.
I shot her a glance that conveyed my contempt
while gobbling gaseous bubbles to try and state my intent.
I knew the way this would end once I'd heard the noisy one shout
so I turned-tail and I left soon as she pointed me out!
I loitered around the gravel bed and iridescent accessories
avoiding for now the small fishing net from detecting me.
Sensing the end was near I gulped, and dove down below,
before I fled somewhat desperately into a shoal of my own.
With the net closing in slowly, I sped up my speed,
- I know it's ignoble but I'd sooner it was them and not me!
I wasn't ready to leave, though my primary concern
was that I'd seen so many deceived only to never return!
With my fins peddling nervously, I turned right and I baulked
to see my "friends" had dispersed, having realised I'd been caught!
I was prised from the water open-mouthed at what had just passed
where my eyes met the daughters holding me aloft in a bag.
"I promised my dad I'd take care of you," the custodian lied.
The polymer plastics properties choked my reply.
With a roll of the eyes, I was free falling through the air and quick -
plonking into a bowl on the side of a room that was garish pink.
The human I shared it with often bleated and blared
with all the usual superlatives like "I'll clean it, I swear!"
Within weeks I was scarcely even glanced at as she passed
& the over-feed from her parents started to gather in the tank.
The gravel pit was blackening where algae sits on the rocks
- she hasn't cleaned the glass in here since the filter was blocked.
So I swim in a clockwise motion with my head up against the cell
while thinking of what it would take to get out and save myself.
I delved in the dainty dwelling, where I thought for a bit,
and my impending fate propelled me even more than my fins.
This dirty waters beginning to grate on my gills
I swear the chlorine I'm swimming in's what's making me ill.
Maybe by building up momentum and staying close to the right,
I could escape it by tilting the fish bowl on its side?
But with oxygen low in supply, once the water displaced,
my only hope of survival would be a crawl to the drains.
All it would take was the smallest mistake and that would be it!
I really wasn't sure I would make it, so I sat dragging my fins.
The gravel I'd kicked up began floating atop
as I lapped up a drink, smacking my lips, and closely I watched.
A froth of foam carried flotsam that grouped at the edge
which the overseers' mom would sometimes remove with a net.
I knew in that second what awaited me since
if she presumed I was dead, I might just be able to live!
The wait is horrific but I give my best performance to date
and play dead implicitly, only blinking when sure that it's safe.
Hours sprawl into days; A wry smile leaves from my mouth
when the daughter exclaims "Mom, quick, Bieber has drowned!"
Keeping my mouth closed, the fish nets shadow hits my face
I feel it teasing me out of the water before it carries me away.
With a splash I give my tail a flick and swim for my life
having chanced on an escape tunnel within the pipe!
In the distance behind, I hear a flush hissing at me,
- and feel a wave whisking me by as I adjust diligently.
This must be freedom I think to myself as I open my eyelids.
If there's plenty more fish in the sea, here's hoping I find 'em...

VS

DRAGON BURSTING FLAMES: DRAGON BURSTING FLAMES: DRAGON BURSTING FLAMES
HURT TERRAIN: GREEN TERRAIN: BLUE/BLEW TERRAIN: CHAINS OF PAIN: CHAINS OF PAIN/
I'm the author of LIGHT; THE AUTHOR OF DESTINY; THE AUTHOR OF SENTIMENT OF EVIL/
SENTIMENT OF EVIL; PRESDIENT OF EVIL: KILLING THE RESDIDENTS: RESIDENT/
I'm conniving as a deceitful tricky SERPENT; SERPENTINE IN THE GRASS/
WORTHLESS WITH A LAUGH: SERPENT IN THE GRASS: SERPENT IN THE GRASS/
I am the MAKER OF HEAVEN: THE MAKER OF LIGHT: COMPEL VAIN OF PLIGHT
EXCELLING THE NIGHT/KNIGHT..AUTHOR OF LIGHT..SOMBER WITH PLIGHT..DRAGON OF NIGHT/
I'm the sentiment of evil..sentiment of rash..THE SENTIMENT OF EVIL..THE SENTIMENT OF RASH/
*SLASH* *SLASH* *SLASH*..SLASHING WITH ASCENDING AND DESCENDING CLAWS; JESUS CHRIST
I'm the maker of heaven; the maker of light; THE SPIRIT OF EVIL: THE SPIRIT OF EVIL
THE DECIETFUL NEEDLE IN A GUMPTION CATHEDRAL: I AM EVIL AS BLUE AND RED/
I am the night/knight in shinning armor; battling karma; evil dragons/
DECIETFUL DRAGONS..EVIL DRAGONS..EVIL DRAGONS..LOSE TO GOOD DRAGONS/
HORSEMENT GIST..ENDORPHINS WERE RAPED WITH CLAWS ASCEDNING AND DESCENDING/
PRETENDING TO BE A DRAGON BECAUSE YOUR A FAGGOT; YOU DON'T BREATHE FLAMES/
I'm a conniving demon swordsman; decietful worthless purpose/
HURT THE SERPENT WITH WORTHLESS PURPOSE: NO..YOU DID NOT DISCERN THE WORTHLESS/
I am as evil as a serpent in the grass; worthless with a laugh/
BURNING THIS FAGGOT TO DUST AND ASH; LUNCH IS DASH/
I'm conniving as a serpent IN THE GRASS; WORTHLESS WITH A LAUGH/
URNING THE GASH..THE SENTIMENT OF EVIL..SENTIMENT OF RASH.. SENTIMENT OF *SLASH*/
I'm the night/knight in shining armor; BATTLING KARMA/
KARMA SISS; ARMS AND MATICS BLOW THROUGH YOUR ARMISTICE/
I'm the burning dragon; burning FAGGOTS/
BURN THIS FAGGOT: WORTHLESS MAGGOT/
I'm the sentiment of evil; sentiment of *RASH*/
PRESIDENT OF EVIL LIKE RESIDENT EVIL; AND THE PEOPLE(PER SIN) IS ATOP OF A STEEPLE CATHEDRAL/
I'm conniving as a swordsman; DECIETFUL SERPENT IN THE GRASS/
BURNING FAGGOTS AND MAGGOTS IN HELL; DECIETFUL SERPENT/
I'm THE SENTIMENT OF EVIL: THE SENTIMENT OF EVIL/
I'm the president of EVIL: THE RESIDENT EVIL: THE DECIETFUL NEEDLE/
I'm ORGANIZED KONFUSION: THE MORTIFIED ILLUSION: CORK A RHYME YOUR DOOFUS/
LORD OF RHYMES AND STUPID: FORTIFIED AND RUTHLESS: FORKS AND KNIVES ABUSER/
I'm the conniving as a SWORDSMAN: DEMON SWORDSMAN: BLINF SWORDSMAN/
HORSEMEN GIST? HORSEMEN PISS: YELLOW ENDORPHINS; COMPEL VAIN THE ORIFICE/
I'm the nine milimeter uzi; SENTIMENT OF EVIL: SENTIMENT OF RASH/
PRESDIENT OF EVIL: RESIDENT OF EVIL: A CATHARSIS CATHEDRAL/
I'm a CONNVING SWORDSMAN: DEMON SWORDSMAN; BLIND SWORDSMAN
YELLOW ENDORPHINS FOR THE DESIGN OF HORSEMEN: FORFIET..
I'm the conundrum gallows of HELL..SENTIMENT OF EVIL..SENTIMENT OF RASH..
*SLASH**SLASH**SLASH*..CLAWS ASCENDING AND DESCENDING; ASCENDENT AND DESCENDENT/
I'm as EVIL AS A DEMON SWORDSMAN: EVIL SWORDSMAN/
DECIETFUL SWORDSMAN WITH DECIETFUL SERPENT: DECIETFUL SERPENT/
I am as EVIL AS A DEMON SWORDSMAN; BREATHING HORSEMEN ENDORPHINS/
BLEED THE ENDORPHINS: DEMON SWORDSMAN: BREATHING FLAMES/
I'm the deicetful serpent in the grass; worthless with a laugh/
A DEMON DRAGON BURNING THIS FAGGOT TO ASH: MAGGOT YOUR GASH/
I'm the sentiment of EVIL; the sentiment of *RASH*/
*SLASH**SLASH**SLASH*.. DRAGON CLAWS ASCENDING AND DESCENDING/
I'm SLASHING HORSEMEN IN HALF: DEMON SWORDSMAN OF *SLASH*/
WITH MY WATER FLOWS: I LEAD A HORSEMEN TO SLAUGHTER/

Ariskima; abyssal in strength and knowledge; half water; half fire; laugh choir
Water droplets seep from his cheeks; he's a aqua son for the almighty God; shiek with technique
Petting the sheep in the pasture; while Jesus Christ cries tears of joy for Billy Goat Gruff
Silky coat snuff, silky coat snuff; silly stone sun; fire at the hellish stars; with water break
Somber name; Andrew Flores; flourish as flores; with naive and flourishment
Sirens are nourishment; drinking their water droplets; somber knowledge
Apocalypse driven iccubus; icarus wings flap nigh, flap twice; flap once, flap thrice
flap silently, flap ferociously, flap a second time; beckon light
Water droplets fall from my cheeks; I'm the son Icarus
The Sky God Andrew; paints blueish hues with a evil smile; and sinister laugh
Take a sinister bath; a livable fast; having a sinister laugh as a sinner of wrath
Pinnacle staff; Ariskima of hope and freedom; hope with demons
I have the rope of Jesus; Satyr of light; harp of the light
Somber at night, singing songs of light; fond of light
I am night, I awoke the dawn of light; on a mourning day
My fluffy puffy cloud provoked the wonder awake; asunder as snake
Sun of a snake; funneling grace through the sun as a snake
Funneling grace; slithering snake; sinful as plagues
I am a water droplet; socrates and aristotle know of me; soak in grief
Known as thief; I have hopes and dreams; in the Hosea sea
She water droplets in the Hosea Sea; provoking me
Slithered and glistened' in the ocean sea; soaked in greed
I'm ocean seas; ropes and trees; abra cadabra; I'm ocean seas
I shed water droplets; fear is voice; revered in choice
Hear my voice; sincere as boy; seer with choice
I'm the Ariskima; the sky god Andrew; the bluest hue
Cute as mute; I have the same knowledge that Judas knew
I have the soul and essence of a star in the night
I am the sun's best friend; the star of the night
Charm of the light; I am a moon far in the night
I am the hope that is far in the white
I am a star and sun, moon of hope; far in the night
Darkness in the light; I am the white far in the light
I am a poet of grace and ocean; stay devoted
Say a notion to provoke the grace of ocean; the rain of oceans
I cry the rain of oceans; crying as a seer of choice
For I know as I am a water droplet; I can cry tears of joy

Seeds of birth, recollect the earth; hell's spawns diminish into water and cloud
My wonders are vow, the sun will be out; I am a lion with the hunt of a mouse
Punishing gluttonous cows; rummage a house for food from a blizzard
I'm choosing my sister; Jinx; profused as a minister; the tune of a sinner
Summer ends, and winter starts; I love my family with sin and hearts
A grin will star; this is the beginning of the end; sin will be my friend
I slither hunger pains into hell; to escape gluttony for serpents
Asunder will be perfect; I'm rummaging as serpent; under the moonlight
The light that God created will soon be bright; for it had not yet shined
Now, with my prophetic vision; it shimmers as shrine
My goodness diminished a bind; I start with sin; but finished with kind
Sin is benign; I'm sinister serpent; with the gift of a rhyme
My wisdom mimic a mine; I'm a demon with a Spanish tounge
My cold heart vanish suns; I'm a serpent devouring Spanish suns
My serpents tounge had Atlantis sung; I banish fish to the shores
I wish on a shore; and pray to the fish that finished their war
My sin is a war; I'm a demon; I shoot bows and arrows at horsemen on horseback
I play with pokemon; sleep with a Snorlax; Jigglypuff sings me to sleep on the doormat (home sweet home)
I'm a Djinn that slept with Jesus Christ; molested him and taught him tounges
After; he sought the sun; but couldn't match Hosea; that taught the suns
I'm a lavish prince; you can sleep with me for a handsome price; be careful
For I sleep on a water bed in the lairs gloom; with demons and angels I share room
I write in the heart of night; a star that shines on the black of night
I am the wrath of plight; I am darkness laughing at the laugh of light
I battle plight in a sundress; the sun's set; I have a good feeling; the sun's wet
'Aqua sun, oh Aqua sun please fill me with water splashes from a Aqua sun'
For I am a water sun; of the almighty devil; a aqua sun for the water
I drink sparkling water in a spring and river; then cry tears of joy in a ocean
I swim the seven seas of holy ocean; hold the ocean in wet palms
I write water psalms; for the aqua sun will cry tears of joy for revered as poise
Hear the noise of wet sex and tongue kissing; pray with fun wishes
'This Aqua sun, oh This Aqua Sun' the watery sun kisses; the fun fishes
A Fish's Ascension; the water of tears for life are held in soul
I felt the cold of winter; as a seldom cold sinner; relish cold blizzards
Hellish cold winters; seldom sold winters; held as cold sinner
Felt the cold winter of a snowflake; brush on my nose
My tongue is reposed; the aqua sun creates a snow angel
Glowed halo; sang as a serpent with bold Angels
Told fables and parables to snow angels; during a winter blizzard
Assist my sister; tongue kissed her; and wished as sister
A liquid sinner; holding liquid swords with wishing force
Diminish lords; a fish accord; liquid sword; sinister lord
My synchronicity ceased feathers; and made Angels gleam better
For I am a aqua sun; a fish; that travels the sea's desert

I'm answering kinetic energy; WITH BRAIN TELEPATHY from onyx stature//
BUBONIC RAPTURE.. capture the flag like capturing your opponents flag after torture..//
STAB and scorch ya''; I'm a siemese dragon on the attack with the rapture acrobats//
ABRACADABRA with ABRACADABARA man;; I'm living a life of torture and scorching flames//
Time to save the day, eat cabbage meat from around the tree of life/light like this your average feat!?//
RABBIT"S FOOT torture's rabbi's who are not true to JESUS CHRIST// sea the light//
I'm coming with komodo dragon attacks to attack your back with cataracts//
I'm agent orange in the VIETNAM JUNGLE with hundreds of fucking bubbles//
I can't be defeated, I'm camaflouged in headwear with the machete from war//
ARMAGEDDON explore, stars are headed for war when I attack flows//
LIKE THE FAUCETS running from olympian heights stabbing my pride//
I'm vegeta in dragon ball super eating the inside of the skies//
I turned the skies read;; ADOLF SPITLER with the pen''/
CAME with the win(d).. I'm ancient blitzscreen taster shot wit the pen'/
I'm onyx stature,, bubonic rapture; sonic stabbing you as fast as I can//
JAM A pen in the nasty win(d), I'm pepper and spice and everything nice//
PUNCHLINE after punchline coming lunch time after lunch time..
VERBAL phonics are ultra sonic;; eating tails and knuckles from the buckle//
I am AJ THE MENACE: slay gays with penace;; go see the dentist//
FLOWING THE TEMPEST;; ovarian cyst the menace like a fucking apprentice//
I'm agent orange drinking coca cola; fucking soda; with the sun of nova//
COMING hopeless;; winter solstice; SPLINTER DOPE SHIT;; like hills of mountains//
FULFILL A FOUNTAIN, kill the mountains; I AM AZIATIC AND ANCIENT//
FULFILL THE CASKETS OF RAISINS//RAIZENS with seer buster//
CAREER LUSTER:: I am the cranium uranium killer; coneal mustard//