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Theater of Utter Charm Part 7

gesturing crudely about luck and doom blowing us towards the promised manic Paradise a steely eyed greeting committee providing the final hurdle their panel of erudite jurists concluded that his sense of right and wrong had been tricked by wizard mesmerists no one could say otherwise concluded the statistically invariant barking and clapping seals playing Beethoven's Deaf Concerto on a row of bicycle horns breaking every norm of decency a warrant for the silent miscreant sworn out within minutes for predicting an earthly Pantopia later proven by the Pantopians themselves to be a complete and utter refabrication of the origin myth of the Cult of Woe whose priests ran buck naked through the sleeping metropolis beating upon pots and pans shouting your screams will not save you but your brains might be a warrior for perfection then it is jovial company for a long voyage a waterfront thriller on the hickory dickory docks he was always a bit of a rogue a scamp a blithe troublemaker a holiday romp that never ended the committee finally implanted my chip but I made them work for it by golly I mean you surrender everything you make them pay the piper evidently I got the discount chip I can read their data requests like a shop foreman with a brass hammer and figured it was getting too hot for comfort and time to blow town too much to sort out no simple answers I'll need a clacking abacus and a couple of numbers to go with it trying to make it seem that I have a say in any of this but can only conclude that drama subverts analysis pretty much every time pretty much every place in any hemisphere in any situation in case you haven't noticed to act is to relinquish autonomy autonomy is only there during the thinking part now there's a burden worth a sack of salt I guess we just have to roll with the role and hope for the ever present unlikely it's certainly happened before to a statistically invariant quantity enabling the emergence of our species for example but then always forgetting what we have learned in favor of what we wish or what we fear or what we compensate for now that's quaint and furrowed for the following justifications there's just too damned much to remember it's that simple it's the human condition it's because we can't help but invent new forms of addition in our heads (to be continued) From "Theater of Utter Charm" http://tinyurl.com/yd5wbtgt Artist Portfolio: http://walteralter.site11.com/

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Date: 1/18/2018 9:10:00 PM
Pantopia equals tourist trap!~Che :)
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Walter Alter
Date: 6/24/2018 9:02:00 AM
In Pantopia your screams will not save you.

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