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long term thinking is a creator of appetite but brain chemistry can play tricks like a rattlesnake bite can play tricks once you toss your conscience into the gutter and the desire for being the most free becomes last year's wavy banner fallen venom fresh in the blood of life parasitic feeble deprived and manacled where free enough is free enough leaving behind far less collateral dementia the old school vs. the new school which is which it's hard to tell barking dogs from mewing cats any longer the spilt shadows are that long the tapping of striped canes that grim the gullible have erected a stockade because mama loves her babies an accretion of idiocy by definition it comes down to people don't know long since sent to the evaporation pools where permanent revolution is still a thing and the Wurlitzer dialectic see saw is a steam locomotive straining for traction against the sparking anvil of the elder ironsmith shoveling party slogans into the boiler as if they were the color of sky rather than a long dark gestation now skipping and tooting down Elm St.
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