Theater of Utter Charm Part 7
gesturing crudely about luck and doom
blowing us towards the promised manic Paradise
a steely eyed greeting committee
providing the final hurdle
their panel of erudite jurists
concluded that his sense of right and wrong
had been tricked by wizard mesmerists
no one could say otherwise
concluded the statistically invariant
barking and clapping seals
playing Beethoven's Deaf Concerto
on a row of bicycle horns
breaking every norm of decency
a warrant for the silent miscreant
sworn out within minutes
for predicting an earthly Pantopia
later proven by the Pantopians themselves to be
a complete and utter refabrication
of the origin myth of the Cult of Woe
whose priests ran buck naked
through the sleeping metropolis
beating upon pots and pans
shouting your screams will not save you
but your brains might
be a warrior for perfection then
it is jovial company for a long voyage
a waterfront thriller on the hickory dickory docks
he was always a bit of a rogue
a scamp a blithe troublemaker
a holiday romp that never ended
the committee finally implanted my chip
but I made them work for it by golly
I mean you surrender everything
you make them pay the piper
evidently I got the discount chip
I can read their data requests
like a shop foreman with a brass hammer
and figured it was getting too hot for comfort
and time to blow town
too much to sort out no simple answers
I'll need a clacking abacus
and a couple of numbers to go with it
trying to make it seem
that I have a say in any of this
but can only conclude that drama subverts analysis
pretty much every time
pretty much every place
in any hemisphere in any situation
in case you haven't noticed
to act is to relinquish autonomy
autonomy is only there during the thinking part
now there's a burden worth a sack of salt
I guess we just have to roll with the role
and hope for the ever present unlikely
it's certainly happened before
to a statistically invariant quantity
enabling the emergence of our species for example
but then always forgetting what we have learned
in favor of what we wish
or what we fear or what we compensate for
now that's quaint and furrowed
for the following justifications
there's just too damned much to remember
it's that simple it's the human condition
it's because we can't help but invent
new forms of addition in our heads
(to be continued)
From "Theater of Utter Charm"
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