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Theater of Utter Charm Part 23

sometimes you have to look after your sanity
and try to understand the laws of sequence
where before and after absolutely must preexist
perhaps consciousness cannot access its source
but we're not automata and we've come a long way
through lunacy and habit and clutching
to the point where we have a fighting chance
we try to figure out what goes on
behind the scenery where they hammer and nail
plausible billboards in a land of temptation
where magnetic fields of want
were crippling to man and beast
their gyroscopes wobble as the revolutions peter out
with psychic cannibalism as their last resort
we attach ourselves to people
we should attach ourselves to logic
and then people with logic are all attached
the audience sat in deliberate silence
delivered his lines like a Trooper of Dawn
if you can't assert domain and dominion
over your own bleeping head
then all I got to say is
don't be unnaturally blind son
then free to accept criticism
even by people you hate
genius is the new aristocracy
bearing only echoes of times long gone
swirling down the storm drains
the reign of terror is about to end
the only agency of change
will obviously and necessarily become
better data period
and the adaptation factor is never absent
it's our trump card
without it feathers ruffle bones break
this moment can be forgiving
but the future is definitely not
hope is what you feel when all other means fail
ultimately or otherwise instigated
by your best guess at the moment
the trick is to discern between
a temporary lack of inspiration and giving up
we are here for a while
and then poof we disappear
darkness falling like a guillotine
we artists must first understand our own insanity
before we can understand the insanity
that perpetually surrounds us
and if he doesn't want to be crippled
by deeply morose hissing vengeance
he'll need to tie a rope
to a tree on the bank
before diving into the maelstrom
haunted by his many mortalities
the nemesis dream where you can't escape
where self and self plus other and other
all appear as separate matters of relevance
all occurring in the nick of time
more than a mock paradox for dramatic purposes
it's simple we replace morality with aesthetics
so it's a morass what else is new
meanwhile hail the state of permanent apostasy
and its manifold of immediate considerations
about time and place and the hypnotic
(to be continued)


From "Theater of Utter Charm"
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