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Theater of Utter Charm Part 21

how the else you going to progress if you don't Sherlock Holmes the mirror look what we've become men hunting each other for sport money and babes an insane ability to believe anything and that's all there is to it you notice these things do you goes my neighborhood Gestapo man my great hoped for metaphysical detonation was just a tent peg in this circus of death certainty can easily be manufactured delusions always contain certainty otherwise they would be recognized as delusions our instinct for fairness regaining control of the upper schools I'm going to tell you right now it's cool to analyze so why is it becoming stylish to be stupid one day it will become retro and quaint well spray paint that on a blank wall the evil breeders of half humans from the scorching Planet Nuoc are no longer teaching our children now the transgressions are tallied in one media alert after another a touchy subject by any stretch of the holy imagination it's simply a matter of knowing what you face if your eyeballs function you can trust yourself to deliver the authentic goods in a magic blending of science and whim an angelic ability to see error and call it error work I have no time for work I do have time for things that matter at some point you gotta admit all is derived from perception if your curiosity glands are properly functioning we're not talking about training dogs to woof the alphabet but rather a roof over one's head for starters a head over one's roof for finishers the question is who is teachable who wants to know the not obvious yes the devil is in the details how and why dance mysteriously atop the wharves and quays of embarkation where the new meets the old with a fervor to be gone from here an ineluctable chemical reaction upon a knife edge of possibility or is it equilibrium or is it art so many of our inhabitants yearn for a land drained of its treachery a swamp that has been with us so boringly for so boringly long heard as a loud background hum yet ignored wantonly even proudly those questioning demons are yours to make all the horror in the world cannot displace that at least not until experienced eh so how is superstition experienced meanwhile useful data stream past the checkpoint we are held up at a destination that appears on no public map check your surroundings is always good advice beauty works to ensure our permanence (to be continued) From "Theater of Utter Charm" Available on Amazon

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