Thousand: Six Hundred Forty-Four

I would believe a thing you say? What are you, anyway?” “I am the Leper Messiah. I am the King. I am the Only One Left Alive.” “The only what left alive? The only leper?” “The only leprechaun,” says the thing, making a soft moan of it. “I am the only one left. All the others are extinct. They have killed themselves with bad habits. They led themselves down ill paths, sinful roads paved with good expense accounts. They indulged in self-abuse and refused to see the light, even when it was winking in their faces. Their eyes were fixed