End over end, neither left, nor the right Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life
Make me, oh, make me, Lord, more than I am Make a piece in your master game plan Free from the earthly temptation below I've got the will, Lord, if you've got the toe
Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life End over end, neither left, nor the right Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life
Bring on the brothers who've gone on before And all of the sisters who've knocked at your door All the departed, dear loved ones of mine And stick 'em up front in the offensive line
Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life End over end, neither left, nor the right Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life
Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life End over end, neither left, nor the right Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights Dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life
Yeah, dropkick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life End over end, neither left, nor the right
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Songwriters: Paul Charles Craft
Dropkick Me Jesus lyrics © Screen Gems-emi Music Inc., Black Sheep Music
C.: d.c., I know that you’ve been trying to lose weight, so I came up with a plan for you.
d.: That’s great! I’ve already lost about thirty pounds, but I’d like to lose twenty more. That would put me at my race weight, and I think that's a good weight for me. Unfortunately, the less one weighs, the fewer calories s/he burns. That makes it more difficult to lose the last few pounds than the first few, because the only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume.
Eating habits, as a rule, are established early in life. That makes it more difficult for those of us who are accustomed to burning a lot of calories to lose weight as we get older, so I appreciate your help. What did you have in mind?
C.: Here, just read this sheet of paper Sixto is handing you.
d.: All this says is for me to give you mine and Eudora’s paychecks for the next six months!
C.: Right. If you don’t have any money, you can’t buy food. And if you can’t buy food, you can’t eat. If you don’t eat, you’ll lose weight! It’s a fool-proof plan!
d.: You’re close to what this is with your description of it. You're half right about your diet plan. Anyway, I must get back to work. I’m sending out more query letters for one of my manuscripts, and some of the agents and publishers want a book description.
C.: Oh, when you’re through, can I read it?
d.: Well, you can read what I’ve written so far. A little constructive criticism is welcome, as long as it is constructive. Just don’t dropkick me through the goalposts of life, if you don’t mind.
THE MAGRUDER MYSTERIES MURDER 8: THE INERT INGREDIENT
BOOK DESCRIPTION
A police detective with a horrific secret asks his superiors’ permission for a hometown friend to use the police morgue. Mr. James wants to teach his clinical nursing class about preventable deaths. Detective Magruder is horrified when his friend stops at the eighth cadaver, the one that holds Jay’s secret. His rookie trainer’s elder daughter is a member of that class, and she’s inherited her father’s curiosity. Jay suspects that Alice has also inherited her father’s habit of digging for the truth until it reveals itself. He still agrees to a coffee date with her because he’s impressed with her determination. He’s also been infatuated with the nursing profession since he was a child.
Alice is as interested in Jay as he is in her, so they embark on a dating relationship. They quickly become intimate, leading to pregnancy, then marriage. When Alice is eight months pregnant with the couple’s second child, she confronts Jay with the reality that she can no longer be compelled to testify against him in a court of law, because of the spousal privilege clause. When Jay demurs, Alice Jones-Magruder complains that he’s too good at keeping secrets. She worries that she’ll never be able to completely trust him.
Burdened by guilt and a desire to build trust with his wife, Jay then tells, in detail, the story of how he helped a former cartel member kill his mother’s brother (his Tio Benito Suarez) to avoid the unreliable relative from killing him as well as others when he’s drunk and/or high, as he’s done before.
José Leal is able to lace Benny’s cigarettes with minute quantities of Murder 8 (fentanyl) over three days, making it undetectable. After Benny dies, José flees to South America to avoid being punished for his crime by the police or the members of the two cartels that were going to combine under Benny’s leadership.
However, the don of the two most powerful cartels in the Western Hemisphere desperately wants to know where José is, because he’s the only known living relative of the patriarch of the most powerful cartel in the Western Hemisphere: the Leal Cartel. With José out of the way, Taylor could shed the title of “temporary don” of the Leal Cartel and become its permanent leader. Taylor believes that Jay Magruder is the one person in the world who knows José ’s whereabouts.
Taylor then makes plans to kidnap Jay’s pregnant wife and his first-born child to make Jay tell Taylor where he can find José. Jay, though, by design, doesn’t possess that information. When Alice’s father, Ben, must come to the rescue of his grandchild and daughter after they’re kidnapped by Taylor, it creates more stress than the Magruder’s marriage can bear.
Taylor escapes Ben and Jay’s reach and heads to South America to make new plans to control the two most powerful cartels in the Western Hemisphere, as well as the U.S. government.
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