Te cuento del videojuego le me cantó el sueño:

había tumbas sombrías que estiraban debajo por kilómetros,

que tenían una sala con un ataúd

donde descansaba alguien venerado.

Todo era frambuestas

hasta que alguien le saqué un foto

(sacar fotos con una cámera era una abilidad que tenía la protagonista;

es probable que tuviera que desbloquearlo,

y probablemente lo usara solo para lograr 100%).

Después, los turistas infestaron,

y llenaron con basura la sala

y cubieron con grafiti el ataúd

(incluso la música que toca con regularidad el juego

fue substituido por silencia;

supongo que hiciera para el efecto dramático más que nada más).

Los ciudadanos

(que no eran humanos, pero monstruos abigarrados)

eran geniales no más;

ahora, como enemigos, estuvieron enojados

y atacarían la protagonista cualquiera la vieran.

I’ll tell you ‘bout a video game told to me in a dream:

there were shadowy tombs stretching kilometers below,

which had a chamber with a coffin,

where rested a venerated figure.

All was raspberries

till someone took a photo

(taking photos with a camera was an ability that the hero had;

‘twas probably something one had to unlock,

& was probably useful only for 100% completion).

Afterward, the tourists swarmed,

& filled the room with garbage

& covered the coffin with graffiti

(also, the music the game usually played

was replaced by silence;

I guess this was done mo’ for dramatic effect than anything else).

The citizens

(who weren’t humans, but colorful monsters)

were friendly no mo’;

now, like enemies, they were angry

& would attack the hero whenever they were seen.

Rain, rain, come again;
go away another day—
Pip-pip-pip-pip-pip.

Admire the new Six Revisions & all its blandness (not to mention ads).

Actually, I do like the idea o’ allowing readers the option to read 50-100 articles in 1 page. It’d be a fresh mint from the sites that split single articles into multiple pages so I can load their gorgeous ads twice as much.

The writer in me cringes @ “most favorite” though.

Also, am I the only 1 amused & bemused by the fact that the screenshot I took shows the same ad twice on the same screen o’ the same page, just 1 a li’l stretched? Six Revisions truly wants me to try those FreshBooks.

See, e’en George Washington says I should kill myself.

Aún temo permitirlos saber a otros que uso una lápiz de PaperMate^®.

I’m e’en ‘fraid to let people know I use a PaperMate^® pencil.

Accompanying music.

Bloody eye o’ Zero, were

I as steadfast as thou aren’t

in your purple milky blur,

my unbeatable broken heart,

sickle cutting through the leaves,

cut through by our shadows, yet

that don’t mold your curdled cheese—

not a clot: your veins stay fed.

I arrived each hour last night

—or this morn—so that I might

see you flush, but you were pale white.

That’s why I shattered every mirror.

Free will makes authoritarianism inevitable.

This is due to 2 irrefutable facts o’ reality:

• There is only 1 reality for mo’ than 1 people,¹ which must remain consistent with the multitude’s inconsistent goals.
• One’s actions can affect others.

If multiple people have different goals for how 1 piece o’ reality should be shaped, only 1 o’ those goals can logically be completed—whether 1 completely usurps the others or there is a compromise o’ goals. This will inevitably lead to irreconcilable conflicts—’specially with the huge # o’ people in this 1 world we live in.

Inevitably, some o’ those people’s free wills will entice them to use force to complete their goals; the only way to stifle this force is a different use o’ force. Therefore, no matter which forces are enacted & which win, some force is bound to be used & win.

There has ne’er been a power structure that has kept its power without using force, nor has the world e’er allowed everyone to do whatever she wants.

Note that there are, ’course, different ways to measure authoritarianism, however. For instance, both democracy & totalitarianism are authoritarian; the former is simply mo’ balanced in for whom the use o’ force benefits.

Economics follows the same logic. Though all economic systems are authoritarian—private property is just as much forced onto society through government force as public—there are different ways to measure economic systems, such as for whom they benefit, or how efficient they are. It’s wrong to say that US-style economics is superior to Soviet-style due to being “free”; but it is logical to say that it is due to benefiting a better balance o’ people (due to its property control being slightly mo’ decentralized) & its greater efficiency from the slightly greater competition through said decentralization. This also explains why “social democracies” usually do better than both, as they—through wealth-spreading income redistribution—are e’en mo’ decentralized than the mo’ oligarchical laissez-faire economies.

Spaghetti falls—
Splut.
No arm tears now—
solo me río.

Accompanying music.

Some will say you hide the sun;

I say that the sun hides you.

Clean as cream or stained with mud,

mixed with every hue o’ blue,

you find comfy every season,

mixing with both sun & rain;

bubble me from earthly treason:

pillow me in dreams away.

Then the billows all turn gray,

lullabies turn into shakes—

1 last thunder ‘fore my wake.