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Regretting Cake

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'Massa' and 'libum' are both Latin translations of 'cake'.

'Veni Vidi Vici' is of course coming seeing and conquering.

'Khamsin' is an oppressive southerly wind (blowing fro Egypt), but I did not for once intend to get overly political here. Fitting nouns staring with K were honestly not that easy to incorporate.

 

(Not) Regretting Cake Never ending restrictions are slave driver’s tools a debatable concept wielding Onslaughts on conscience asceticism zero sums zero size and perfection To not trespass the segments of cake the boundaries and frontiers rules and Regulations to not violate prescriptions norms dogma seems violent in itself Ethics of ingestion virtue Kantian Imperatives calculus of nutrients refrain but Greed I am not talking about only challenging that second third piece of cake Reconstituting its shape form and meaning on my hips on my nourished mind Eat it and have it I do not propose though I posit another round of consumption To further the cause of challenging prejudice stereotypes and conformity The cake forms reforms formulates temperate moderation versus addiction In ‘massa libum’ veritas and in ‘veni vidi vici’ I transcend over the tyranny of Never-ending so-called scientific nonsense regarding what my cake intake must Gauge on the scales of truth and honesty desire tolerance and discomposure Calibrated shackles prisons torture chambers othering of weighty arguments in Adverse confusion of liberation freedom unregretted pleasure life as such are ‘Khamsin’-like oppression hot air and antidotes to independence to my pursuit of Ebullition in words feelings thoughts and propositions and in that second slice of cake 05th August 2016

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