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In Our Dotage

What do you dote on? Who do you dote with, if anyone? "Dote" is an old-time word for ruminate, to dwell on and within, to become absorbed by and with. Then there is also "antidote". Let's imagine that our massive events and entertainment media were to merge into an eventertainment industry, hypnotised and hypnotising to dote on negative events in which we explore ourselves and others as victims in some intensely dissonant way, suffering anthro-doting creations not yet present when media creator god looked and saw that we should smell good, or at least better. This way of empathizing with others stepping into our co-awareness of humanity, discovering both my and our identities as co-redeeming victims of ecopolitical anti-dotage abuse and neglect, terror and malignant apathy, also evolves reverent wonder and awe recovering discovering uncovering champion dotage antidotes, new ecopolitical gods and goddesses hunter ways and gathering means for and of images and dreams of now fracturing crevices and cracks filling with peaceful healing justice fragrant with lemon-scented sustaining mercy, lavender of love's promise in four-dimensional fully organic spectral color following outlines of days when healthy therapeutic news was sunrise good and sunset bad, but all agreed, normatively good was green below with blue above in yellow light from which we came to champion dote through each night. If we are victim doters then antidoting champions too to see full color stretching identities of me through organic you within each of time's regeneratively bilateral antidotes, both victim and larger self-potentiating champions, heroic co-redemptive powers cooperating our more positive psychology, evaporating our too negative dotage, ruminating our wisdom experiments together, amply covered by poetic license.

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