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Mind-Walking

If minds could be seen, we could take them out for a walk, show off a bit. Although we would have to leach and muzzle most of them like dogs. There would be, with luck, a few cool cats but most minds would be clearly rabid. Many surreal artists have attempted to paint a mind, but their depiction's all end up as a set of dentures bolted together with animal parts. Some mindscapes are cute like Disney movies (they are the worst), some resemble the rear end of an equine nightmare. Greater minds would show up off-leash and of their heads, the lesser thinkers tending to gather around to sniff, but then (disappointingly), they belly up for ego rubs, or spin like drunk dervishes chasing their own tails. Best to keep our minds behind a thick mask - monkey masks are popular.

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Date: 8/28/2023 3:24:00 PM
Mine walked off a few months ago and didn't come back - I'm not sure I'd recognise it. Things are much quieter without it. I like the idea of the visual - I imagine mine was lots of string that mostly lead to nothing but some to human heart shaped individual brains (inside those I'm not sure, probably mirrors). I wrote a poem earlier coincidentally trying to take a look and it was hiding.
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