(no subject)

[shiningfractal]

the surveillance commitee
were pupils to this strange teacher
though they were sufficiently
accomplished in their crafts
to perform their tasks well
they lacked the philosophical sophistication
which could turn even their
devilish shenanigans
into nothing more than
entertainment
wouldn't it be pleasant
if the citizens could
just laugh it off
the madness and mayhem
the abuses and the onslaught
laugh, laugh of it all
why wound a dragon you can't kill
the shot was heard around the world
it seemed to him as if
everybody in the Room was killed
except his intended target
so it was just the two of them
on an impossible stand off
there was none to bark orders to
it was just a machine
spitting out machine nonsense
to a machine man with a machine mind
who would read it and laugh
because something within him
made him find meaning everywhere
and with admirable fidelity
drawing a smile even from those who thought
the task was too big for him

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