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Crookedness and Clowns

They channelized the news the quick zapped flash of fact undeniably taking the opportunity by storm by the contortions of varsity they proclaimed so devoutly the new acceptable norm of an already butchered normality And who with applause with the legalized blurb of an unhealthful profanity the television population kept their provocation alive hidden behind doors as death walked among them merely to survive hearing the empty rattle of dooms day call the trumpets fuselage had deceived them all Oh bitter masquerade in the taste of paper the hand molded slap clogs the gutter with rubber buffoons in charge of social dementia and the sneaking suspicion of every person has them walking with death as death walks among them Untimely unexpected this demand for survival a battering ram of glibly emergency and save your lives arrival comes suddenly inconsistent confusion splutters on the TV when the all-purpose hype has cathode-ray clowns to feed fears delivery then freedom of choice becomes an infection of liberty The made-up-make-up media mass belching the flatulent garbage of its printed press apply their corporate hegemony assets to techniques in management of human risks collectively bankrupt up to your eyes in it improving the performance of gathering your debts and the sneaking suspicion of every person has them walking with death while life walks among them Ah but paranoia that destroyer of reason comes sweating in its countless number of millions and swears itself by egos vanity who's truth will be true to plausible deniability yesterdays insanity will teach the children life may survive with added security danger playtime warning isolated detachment fear, fear, fear, is the message from them jabbed in the arm of mandatory vaccination And that sneaking suspicion in the eyes of every person ushers in a future of more uncertain walking with yet another apparition of death and so many other scarey phantoms to choose from while the liberty of choice becomes the disease of freedom

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