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Satan's Catechism

so easy to speak of suffering and love
so instead we'll speak of
the one body many minds problem
it is the wisdom of pain
vs. the wisdom of pleasure
vs. the wisdom of extinction
the greater the risk the greater the risk
I flunked out of school school
so my dice are perpetually on the fly
presently writing the final flaming chapter
you will recall from your history texts
that there is a describable form of data 
which controls the description of all other data
which is shining above like the Milky Way
you can pet my hump now
then a voice booms out
from everywhere at once
with an intensity that is preposterous
preposterous now there's a word
that needs no introduction
marry into money son
don't Van Gogh that ear son
get the best set of maps
your set of maps can provide son 
that finishes our emergency broadcast
it's all in post production special effects
lots of zoom in and out simultaneously
plane to plane projection the pure stuff
none of that cheap point to surface
no sir not for my minions of desecration
the evidence is way too flimsy
to change the modern direction anyhow
then I did some number crunching
and took a ride on Godzilla's foot
loaded my pants with explosives
took out two day shift checkout aisles 
and a Starry Night mall fountain mosaic
before they punched my ticket
drugged gagged and bound 
thrown at the jury's unwashed feet
BTW the sickness of modern society
is in fact the previous society
but the reasons for not writing
are the same reasons for writing
we'll come up with something
every night is karaoke night




From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon
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Cheryl Hoffman Date: 12/11/2016 9:03:00 AM My take is that like Frankenstein we have created a techno nightmare for ourselves…Very deep poem Walter!:) Login to Reply Walter Alter Date: 12/11/2016 10:22:00 AM If you know history, you'll know that the nightmare was far worse before technology. Modern electronic media puts the nightmare in our face and we are more civilized now, so it seems worse. Read about the Mongol invasion of Europe in the early 14th century if you want nightmare.