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Enlisting minds tuned to noise, one good spell, post participation in the everlasting war; a peaceful valley, where waiting is only waiting. Settled, true rest, compressed and shaken down watching warnings evolve, in human super bloom. Eight billion minds of the main kind, collective conscience, under ever afterward solemn compulsion to tell the truth. Whole, no reason to bring to confession, I must test, to prove to you, if I I did hear the knock, as it were, a bell, ting, ding, I opened the door and made no invitation, as when a farmer lets out water, whoosh this leaky old cistern was full to overflow, and the rat that hid in the old dry well, drown'd. Resulting in silence, due to the truth in any story being authorized, authority approved. triple A. Sowing as the legendary Johnny Appleseed, with cautionary pioneer role, we can take the land, that was the story told… none of this is learned in secret. - done did done, done did done, done do you know the way to San Jose? Did you know, in 1968? ---------------- The pilgrimage to all the drops, each 50 league step, madding memory of yapping pups herding first bought sheep over the cliff, into the sea, thinking that will be the end of me, as a shepherd… No, I never cried wolf. I never took up the hunt for wolves, I knew it was my own fault as a shepherd innocent, novice with only books, who bought a friendly dog, with too much to learn, and no safe place to train, brain to worth, what is good to know, what is good to go, chase into the sea, like the spirits from the Gadarene, and what evil comes when knowing of good grows too slow to catch a gnat with no effort. Watchman! What of the night? Who is asking, comes a reply, why do you know nothing at this hour, it is dark and quiet, but for living noises, courting crickets and owlish judgements bat beeps and squeals, but those, we feel I think, more than hear.
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Oct 31, 2022
Oct 31, 2022 at 12:19 PM UTC
Messenger character sketch
Enlisting minds tuned to noise, one good spell, post participation in the everlasting war; a peaceful valley, where waiting is only waiting. Settled, true rest, compressed and shaken down watching warnings evolve, in human super bloom. Eight billion minds of the main kind, collective conscience, under ever afterward solemn compulsion to tell the truth. Whole, no reason to bring to confession, I must test, to prove to you, if I I did hear the knock, as it were, a bell, ting, ding, I opened the door and made no invitation, as when a farmer lets out water, whoosh this leaky old cistern was full to overflow, and the rat that hid in the old dry well, drown'd. Resulting in silence, due to the truth in any story being authorized, authority approved. triple A. Sowing as the legendary Johnny Appleseed, with cautionary pioneer role, we can take the land, that was the story told… none of this is learned in secret. - done did done, done did done, done do you know the way to San Jose? Did you know, in 1968? ---------------- The pilgrimage to all the drops, each 50 league step, madding memory of yapping pups herding first bought sheep over the cliff, into the sea, thinking that will be the end of me, as a shepherd… No, I never cried wolf. I never took up the hunt for wolves, I knew it was my own fault as a shepherd innocent, novice with only books, who bought a friendly dog, with too much to learn, and no safe place to train, brain to worth, what is good to know, what is good to go, chase into the sea, like the spirits from the Gadarene, and what evil comes when knowing of good grows too slow to catch a gnat with no effort. Watchman! What of the night? Who is asking, comes a reply, why do you know nothing at this hour, it is dark and quiet, but for living noises, courting crickets and owlish judgements bat beeps and squeals, but those, we feel I think, more than hear.
Excerpt from The Od Evangelist, an unpublished novelish poem.
kenpepiton
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77/M/Pine Valley CA
Oct 31, 2022
Oct 31, 2022 at 12:19 PM UTC
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