Justification

Critical Prose & Poetic Commentary regarding UFOs and their astonishing ancillaries, consciousness & conspiracy, plus a proud sufferer of orthorexia nervosa since 2005!

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Klasskurtxia, Never In A Good Way



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Impacted Klasskurtxians*
At best: teats of insentience
and far from "nutrition" 
dispensing malfeasance
At worst?  
...Sullen agents of "darkness" despised—
stooges for them: purveyors of lies.
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Drones thus "affected" 
to spin party lines
a message confusing
cross-purposed, and trying
See, crass disrespect 
has been tendered to you.  
"Betrayal of innocence" 
is what they imbue.
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...Perhaps we are "losers," 
"neo-dreamers," "no-brainers"... 
with visions of grandeur
"tru-believers..."  "complainers." 
Perhaps it is us 
buying "nonsense" at best? 
Perhaps self-enslaved 
to what won't stand its test? 
Perhaps merely "whacko"... 
a "woo-woo" buffoon, 
or someone who's stopped 
with his meds a mite soon...
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...Though, who is to say... 
given "secrets" sans "oversight"
Who is to say... 
given strict "protocols." 
Who is to say 
given trust's been betrayed 
and the "path" is obscured, 
where humanity falls?
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Whatever they're saying 
they're taking a gamble
with looming attention 
they're made the example... 
There are these working hard 
to discredit an interest... 
in *people from space*
to encourage "disinterest"!  
Who are these privileged 
to husband such truth, 
but those most rewarded 
to remain so obtuse.
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These won't be absolved 
when their castle walls crumble, 
when they're made to crawl... 
on unevenness, stumble. 
When they're made to pay 
for transgressions perceived, 
and they're boiled down 
for the "mouths" they could "feed"!
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Oh, these speak with that sneer, 
like EVERYTHING's clear, 
but dodges those questions 
beyond strange and queer
we beg them for answers 
to *things* that we've seen... 
which millions attest to... 
yet remain unredeemed!
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...But, they'd front for the ignorant shadows, of course; 
they'd fan up the murk like "klasskurtxian Korff."  
These lie and they cheat to perform obfuscation.  
They're sell-outs and scoundrels beyond all objection. Psychopathy reigns from a gated community 
where criminals thrive in a gravid immunity!
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...And what are their bona fides; 
what strange credentials 
are part of a makeup 
that makes them essential? 
Is it "Bull Shit," or More Shit"... 
Piled Higher and Deeper? 
What's their agenda? 
Who's the real sleeper?
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...For me? These klasskurtxians? 
They're personally insulting
a little revolting
obtuse... deconstructing! 
They're a block or an obstacle
a hurdle we face 
on the gamut endured 
to touch TRUTH on her face! 
They have nothing new
just trot out old arguments... 
...Still used like a "salve" 
of their "fraudulent unguent"...
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They're dishonest, deceitful
designing... disingenuous
They're conniving, contemptible
and they're cads... ignominious
...Better persons? 
...Destroyed for transgressions like these! 
Whither klasskurtxians? 
Are they different? Ohplease!
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Errant klasskurtxians 
promote their "bad credit," 
and it seems they're much worse 
than the folks they'd discredit. 
...See, where are their "arguments
that we've been "forgetting"? 
What mistakes have they made, 
and they're huge I'd be betting!
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Their approach is quite manic, 
a frenzy at rest
thousands of E-Mails 
(but they answer mine best). 
They have all the "answers," 
and they're here to put "right" 
all the hounds of my "ignorance"
my "cognitive blight"!
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I resent their intrusion 
as one's piss on my leg! 
Yes, tell me it's raining! 
But to differ, I beg. 
Their tone is so facile, 
and it sings the same song: 
balloons and old swamp gas
just to string us along...
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...Double down on denial?
Kick the can down the road?
Endure double-dealing 
promising less of a load?
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...Yet, feel there's something 
a-watch from "out there." 
We'll know not its "purpose." 
It just sits there and stares... 
recording, perhaps, 
our own irksome consistencies, 
our gross infidelities, 
our craven propensities...
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...And our *boys* "unelected" 
have the *info* galore
you can bet it means changes... 
that it evens some scores! 
...But there... they're struck clueless
so must grasp to their chests... 
what their pay and position... 
or their excess expects!  
Then, it's much easier 
to sell us all out!  
They have "insulation," 
...but we'll do without.
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Bunkies make ridicule 
and mock all those things 
that perplex or confound us; 
they taunt, sneer, and 'spin.' 
They drool proclamation 
with airy aplomb, 
but their sarcasm's worse, 
a disparaging bomb
They chaff, and they razz
but they're smelling the fear... 
of a change to their worldview 
that's been bearing downnear!
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...And what is their program? 
What's their agenda? 
...While trying as hard 
as they can to offend ya'! 
Where'd they get off?
 What is their plan
What's the connection
Who understands?
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I'll bet they inhabit 
a rabid right aisle; 
I'll just bet their soft hands 
hide a predator's smile.
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Yesthere are secrets, 
clandestine ... dark... 
of needs buried in dungeons, 
and cellars or parks. 
Though, along with "no Santa Clause" 
there is evil conspiracy 
to dump on the masses
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We've corrupt institutions! 
We wallow in lies... 
that don't come from Hoagland, 
Art Bell, or those guys! 
It's "justice" for sale 
to a moneyed elite. 
It's corruption in government, 
crooked cops on their beats. 
It's 'worship' for doctors 
and 'honor' for priests. 
It's money to "scientists" 
who march to "the beat."
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Why, it's them and their manners 
which typifies loss 
of all that the cosmos 
could give us at cost
Their eyes look away 
from the light that would shine 
if we asked better questions... 
for those answers opined!
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Don't you find it... well, strange
not a little bit odd... 
that these are well-funded 
and that they get "the nod." 
...But these? ...Mere contrivance 
to confound our credulity! 
They are here to make waves 
to provoke our stupidity!
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Who's the big liar? 
Is it Hoagland, or "Nye," 
he of klasskurtxia 
faking faux-facts besides!





One would presume an inverse there in the last stanza that I'm just not feeling myself, eh?

The klasskurtxian speaks for science, right? No, the klasskurtxian* readily invalidates himself: his ironic failure to investigate, his lack of constructive imagination, his inability to admit an error, his propensity to tender any slap-dash excuse as valid explanation, his abject intellectual cowardice, his lack of humility, his gravid inconsistency, his re-visitation of the discredited as plausible explanation again and again, his sullen intransigence in the face of all reasonable-ness... ...well I could go on and on, actually, and do...

...here...  

...Straight prose and in their own words so no-fair not "getting it."
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This one went on a bit long.  Sorry.  Not.
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*It's a word I coined in a mash-up of the names Klass and Kurtztwo CSI(COP) "heavyweights"attempting to put a name to aspects of their anthropomorphic, arrogant, and altogether cowardly philosophy.
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"Klasskurtxian" is, I submit, a graceful co-mingling of Onomatopoeia and crystal self-definition clattering concussivelyif effortlesslyoff the tongue and palate like a big porcelain urn of live poisonous snakes dropped in the CSI(COP) Commissary. It has a meaning easily determinable in context, eh?



To Touch Truth On Her Face...

Restore John Ford!

Wednesday, August 09, 2023

ATTENTION: Sans Apology, UFOs!


ATTENTION: Sans All Apology, UFOs!
by Alfred Lehmberg 


ATTENTION: TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESSIONAL UFO HEARINGS... The military has a long if unstoried record with UFOs. Why, then, is this entirely famous Flatwoods case sidelined, especially given it is the single most well-documented and competently vetted civilian/military UFO close encounter episode in the history of same. Richard Dolan, Robert Hastings, Whitley Strieber, and the late Stanton Friedman, among significant others, consider the research abundantly credible... is it too real for a comfortable reality? Facts will out, has been the understanding, and how far ahead could we have been if we'd jumped, or at least stumbled over, this hurdle in 1952. Bad news won't be better with age; that's for good news.

Anyway, the Flatwoods monster? That affair was only the denouement for a much longer story we will conclude here; presently. Shortly, the end of a long and undeclared story fully exacerbated by an undeclared, though prosecuted, war. 

In conclusion then, how many of us must remain wholly unaware of other alien encounter episodes in Braxton County, WV... episodes occurring in, and around, the incident of their more famous brother monster in Flatwoods! There were others... one such follows.

Observed: this will be more evidence of collateral damage to the American populace, just like Flatwoods would be, a result of a not-officially-declared air war with ET in 1952 (perhaps, read that again). This would be a war itself a result of presidential orders to the military to shoot UFOs down. True story! These orders were provoked by UFO intrusions into our prohibited airspaces... and?  We would have wanted one...

Old clipping headline held by Feschino and Friedman
IN AN AFFAIR ONLY ADJACENT TO THE WHOLE AIR WAR CULMINATING IN FLATWOODS, THE "FRAMETOWN MONSTER" INCIDENT OCCURRED THE DAY AFTER ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1952 AND IT INVOLVED A CLOSE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A 9-FOOT-TALL ALIEN BEING AND THE GEORGE SNITOWSKY FAMILY. 
REGRETFULLY, THIS CLOSE ENCOUNTER WAS NEVER TO BE RECORDED IN PROJECT BLUEBOOK. Remains, it happened....

So! In our entirely inadequate way, the writers will try to correct its omission to Project Blue Book... call it a supplementary report, well after the fact, to wit:


THE FRAMETOWN MONSTER INCIDENT
by Alfred Lehmberg with Frank Feschino, Jr.

(NOTE: Again! This sighting was not recorded in PBB. Here though, for our late addition to the record, the writers will appropriate the old ATIC's Project Bluebook "10073 RECORD CARDformat to, at last, document and record this sighting as it should have appeared in the PBB official files.)

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

1. DATE: 13 SEP 1952
2. LOCATION: FRAMETOWN, WEST VIRGINIA (NEAREST LANDMARK-JAMES KNOLL)
3. TIME: 2000. [8:00 AM. EST]
4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION: GROUND VISUAL.
5. PHOTOS: NO
6. SOURCE: 2 CIVILIANS. GEORGE SNITOWSKY. EDITH SNITOWSKY (AND BABY.)
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION: APPROX TEN MINUTES
8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS: 1 OBJECT HOVERING NEAR THE GROUND AND OF UNKNOWN BEING
9. COURSE: None detected
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING: FAMILY'S AUTO STALLED NEAR UFO ON THE GROUND LOCATED IN NEARBY WOODS. A SULFUROUS GAS/SMOKE ENGULFED THE AREA. THE MALE APPROACHED UFO AND FELT ELECTRICAL SHOCKS, THEN BECAME SICK. A 9-FOOT-TALL UNKNOWN BEING APPROACHED THE WITNESS AND FOLLOWED HIM BACK TO THE CAR. THE BEING TOUCHED HOOD OF THE CAR, BURNING IT, THEN IT DEPARTED INTO THE WOODS. THE UFO DEPARTED THE AREA INITIALLY WITH A PENDULUM MOTION, THEN DISAPPEARED.
11. COMMENTS: THE FRAMETOWN MONSTER SO-CALLED. THE INCIDENT OCCURRED APPROX 24 HOURS AFTER FLATWOODS MONSTER INCIDENT AND 17 MILES AWAY. ORIGINAL INVESTIGATOR: PAUL LIEB. FOLLOWUP INVESTIGATOR: FRANK FESCHINO, JR. DOCUMENTED BY WRITERS ALFRED LEHMBERG AND FRANK FESCHINO, JR. 
12. CONCLUSIONS: THE BEING WAS LIKELY THE SAME BEING SIGHTED THE NIGHT BEFORE IN FLATWOODS WITH THE UPPER PORTION OF ITS METALLIC SUIT REMOVED IN FRAMETOWN.
13. CONCLUSION: UNKNOWN

There! We feel better!

Commentary:

It was, "...a good eight or nine foot tall...If I ever prayed in my life, I was praying then.A witness quote from George Snitowsky Mr. Paul Lieb.

Flatwoods researcher Frank Feschino, Jr. was able to suggest a track of the flight path for the "Flatwoods Monster," subsequent to its departing the Fisher Farm in Flatwoods on September 12, 1952. After its close encounter with Mrs. May and the six boys, the giant "iron-clad" alien boarded its damaged craft and took off. To go... where?

Just a smattering of the headlines!

It is reasonable, reader, given the plethora of reported activity that night that is reported, well mapped, tagged, and indicated, it followed the Elk River southwest over Braxton County and deeper into the county's further recesses. Ultimately, the craft made its way into the vicinity of the secluded mountainous region of the "Frametown," area, approximately 17 miles away. Local witnesses reported that it landed on James Knoll...

Well... concurrently, one day later on September 13, 1952, New York tourists George and Edith Snitowsky were traveling home from Ohio, road-weary, with their baby. Passing through Frametown at about 8:00 p.m., their car inexplicably stalled and refused to restart. Shortly thereafter, the young couple entered into an unexpected nightmare as they encountered an imposing and otherworldy 9-foot-tall alien being, revealing itself, reportedly, near the area of their stalled vehicle! The reader is reminded that stranger things have likely happened. 

Subjects as yet unaware of an "alien" presence, the area where their car had stalled became inexplicably engulfed with a sickening sulfurous gas, (reminiscent of Flatwoods!)! George Snitowsky exited his stalled car and lifted the hood to examine the battery. He wanted desperately to restart the car and get away! Perhaps this was some kind of chemical spill he'd reflected... and there was the baby to think about! 

After several unsuccessful attempts to restart the engine, he then noticed a glowing elliptically-shaped UFO "thing" that floated out in the distance of the woods. Entranced with the other-worldliness, George elected to walk towards the strange glowing craft to get a better look at it. The wife was adamantly opposed.

Moments later, and closer to the object, George felt debilitating electrical shocks pierce throughout his body, and he was overcome by the gaseous odor! He fell to a knee and vomited profusely! 

As he stood up, Edith let out a blood-curdling scream and yelled to her husband to turn around! Something was approaching him from behind! 

As George quickly turned to take a look, his knees buckled suddenly, and he froze in fear at the sight of a huge alien that was hovering ominously towards him! He then ran away from it, finally, got back into the car, and tried to calm his terrified wife and crying baby. They watched in horror as the being quickly approached them!

Charcoal by Frank Feschino Jr

George instinctively pushed his wife and child onto the passenger side floor to shield them, then grabbed a hunting knife from the glovebox for self-defense. As they huddled on the floor in terror with George laying atop his family protectively, the alien hovered around the perimeter of the car examining it, all the while spewing a horrendous-smelling gas presumably from pipes surrounding its lower metallic torso. 

George put his head down and prayed! After what seemed like an eternity he lifted his head up a few moments, later, to see if the alien had left the area.

As George looked up across the dashboard to his dismay, he was utterly shocked to see the huge alien hovering in front of the car and looking back down at him through the windshield!

Flatwoods/Frametown Monster by Feschino


The alien reached down and touched the car's hood, chemically burning it, presumably, scarring the paint! Then, without making any hostile moves toward them, just like at Flatwoods on the previous day, the thing hovered back into the nearby woods leaving them unmolested. 

Shortly thereafter, a floating UFO took off from the woods and, displaying a peculiar pendulum motion before disappearing into the night sky... zapped off in an eyeblink!

Feschino spoke to George Snitowsky while researching this incident, extensively. He has concluded that the 9-foot-tall being that the Snitowskys saw and encountered that night was probably the "Flatwoods Monster" of Flatwoods fame from the previous day! 

When the alien was seen in Frametown on September 13, its ace-of-spades black outer helmet, red inner helmet, and metallic upper torso spacesuit "parts" had been removed, it's suggested. In the Frametown appearance, the large occupant being was seen in the "flesh," from its head down to its waist area. 

As per the illustration above, its lower body was still encased in the lower portion of the, now familiar to us, apparatus. This suggests it acted, just as in Flatwoods, like a vehicle emitting a gaseous exhaust from the pipes of its propulsion system? Who can know, but that Occam's hypothesis explaining this good faith report must be complicated out of needs, as Occam himself had outlined! Don't complicate the hypothesis without necessity, he'd admonished. Well, it is offered we have a necessity.

During this terrifying incident, the alien being's large head, bloated upper body, long spindly arms, and forked-fingered hands were clearly seen by the witnesses. The entire story can be read in Feschino's book.

Sculpure bust by Frank Feschino Jr.

These then are the results of making war on extra-planetary beings: angry soldiers, terrified humans, and surprisingly benevolent aliens. Consider the alien... presumably shot from the sky by military jets and evading conjectured capture on the ground... they still didn't abuse the locals

That's worth keeping in mind. Read on. 

Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Reality? It Bites AND Kisses—Posted


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Step on up! I'll fill your bucket!
Though, I'll give you much to chew... 
when I show you what's around 
...to be assessed! 
At first a little scary 
when the ground begins to quake, 
but "comeuppance" is deliverance
It's too bad that you're distressed!
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See... detritus we have countenanced 
befouls the air we breathe! 
The faux-patronizing "crap," good Sir, 
precludes respect we bleed.
See, your patriotism's juvenile
just a lie one tells oneself 
to soothe a cognate's dissonance 
for that interest-rooted self.
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Our Republic is at peril! 
All our credos live in threat! 
Our Constitution's promise 
is despoiled in sad neglect...
but not the way "Tea-baggers" mean 
provoked by butt-hurt "pride," 
where "Christian," they'd impose their "will"
... on your's and mine!  Denied!!!  
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...See, they support the makers 
of immoral crooked systems 
and so sip the neo-Kool-Aid as required
They gladly voted thrice 
to juice this current clutch of psychos! 
They "covered up" for fascist thieves and liars.
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So? Quit whining you "don't understand," 
or at best, I'm too "loquacious"? 
That I "dance around the point" too much? 
That I'm "pretentious" or "audacious"?  
Well...It just may be I bounce around 
and mimic... real life!  
Revealed! Life denies you "linear"... 
then it cuts just like a knife...
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No, we both know what the problem is... 
no point in playing dumb. 
The future? It makes your blood run cold, 
and you're lacking "stone," on sum.  
You lack "imagination," you deny yourself, I fear, 
an essence of humanity 
that's yours alone... and near!
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Besides...
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I'd say what I'm provoked to say... 
It's a finger in your eye? 
...Why I work to make it pretty... 
or more injury, IS WHY!  
Immune, myself, to insult 
or insipidous critique? 
Discover I get meaner when I'm sneered at...
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I get piqued...
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See... your "lack of understanding" 
is convenient, mere pretentiousness
Your understanding's obvious
You possess required sentience!
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...So, I won't reward your ignorance
I won't validate your claims
I won't confirm your "certitude"! 
I won't countenance your "games"!
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Dare call me ostentatious
That *inflation* you perceive? 
It's packed with eager muscle of alert solidity!
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See, I'd produce what you would read... 
improve us both thereby, 
words of "use" in metered time... 
it's how one soars and flies!
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...Don't "understand"? Oh yes... you do 
You're getting every word!
You know exactly what I'm saying!
To say you don't's absurd
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Too, I won't respect your "feelings"; 
They impose, they suffocate
We're returned to "ages dark
escaped, once, as our fate!
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I report "unevenness." 
I abhor a lack of sentience
I point out infidelity
I am counseled by my conscience.
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See? You're not so freakin' "blameless"... 
if neither, friend, am I. 
Psychopathic "patriots" 
have usurped our reasons, why.
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I find these types revolting
I'm provoked to speak my mind... 
or I become what I'd abhor... 
to validate their kind!
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...I'll write what keeps my button pushed
—show some of what I need—
a place to study stuff I find 
to bring me up to speed. 
A place to lay a tired brow 
that's clean and fresh and right
An engagement of my faculties 
that's mine alone: my muse's light!
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...An unpolluted "meadow," 
clean rivers rife with "fish," 
there's finding there are other ways 
to be successful—rich! 
It's receiving... due respect 
from those one keeps afloat
and suffer, not, their sneers... derision
or failing while these gloat!
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...Happy satisfaction (?) or despair in your distraction 
as they milk your gelded glands for what they have! 
...And you'll do without a piss break, 
so you won't have much to drink, 
and your wounds will see no medicine or salve.
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And while you're shorted on the front-end 
your *specific* contract pay? 
You're shorted on the back end 
to erode your health away!
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...They FAN "detested" gonads (!), 
then, to sell their toxic "soaps," 
decrying sex—which happens!—
as the "wage of Satan's joke." 
...And they're the ones so teasing (!), 
as they rub it in your face! 
...And them the ones you're pleasing 
when you buy into your own disgrace!
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...Why... we're taught to keep sex dirty—
a "forbidden" price is high!  
If sex was honored ... natural (?)—
the "price" goes down, is why!  
I digress, but the same with "drugs," 
the war on which has failed... 
except to feed "slave labor camps
of persons thrown in jails...
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A "tease" regarding UFO's is wall to wall TV! 
They're in our papers/magazines—
displayed for all to see. 
Festooned with woo-woo music, 
and a digitized effect, 
we're jerked beyond credulity
so the facts lose their respect!
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The mainstream keeps its distance, 
and our NASA stays aloof! 
They won't go on our pod-casts friend! 
They won't discuss the truth.
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They're not open and forthcoming
and it's said these might conspire 
with the forces of "convenience" 
who would keep us from... 
our heart's desire!
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Why ...It could mean that we're autonomous
and too strong to be assailed
on the lip of newer wonders 
that some *Star-folk* might detail?
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It could simply mean there's star-folk, 
and a lot of them... out "there." 
We've discounted Drake's equation 
Let sleeping dogs alone, we whined 
(but out of cruel convenience)... 
...Our lives betrayed to futures 
that exclude our craft and genius...
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...Anything is possible 
given surface, space, and time. 
Even pieces such as this: 
a sincerity in rhyme.
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See? We make these "strained presumptions" 
naught but castles in the air, 
to deny the watching Starfolk 
who have always hovered there! 
From time beyond recording, 
they have haunted Human skies. 
Have they made some vast recording 
of our litany of lies?
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They'll play it for us soon, perhaps, 
then wait for quick denial. 
When crying's done we'll find, I'll bet, 
comeuppance's clean and final.
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The future that we *planned* 
is surely gone, I am assured, 
but the future that replaces it?  
It is greater, to be sure!
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Yes! That future I've portended 
can be seen and not pretended, 
and the satisfactions gained will awe-inspire! 
We will live beyond pretensions, 
and ignore our crass "distinctions" 
as we build on firmer ground 
than what we now know was conspired!
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...We will build upon new ethics 
in a wealth of new eclectics—
that we did not know abundant in our fog
...And we'll find that our behavior's 
more inclusive—it's our SAVIOR—
while defeatists see their errors in our past, or not at all!
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C'mon up and fill your bucket 
with the facts you haven't chewed yet, 
and don't worry that it's tasting much like crow—
it may taste a little poorer 
'fore you finish what needs chewing, 
but then tasting, far, far better than you know!





...Don't "understand," eh? "Stream of consciousness-flap-dash", you say! "Incoherent ranting," you sneer! Well, all that said, I should be pretty easy to take down, expose, invalidate, or neutralize... one would think.

But I wonder... what really fronts these smug reports that I'm just not making any sense; rather, that I'm verbose, inflated, or longwinded?

Is it my lack of clarity? Is it my errant ill-lucidity? Is it my failure to use the less common language of contemplated words arrayed and meaningfully arranged... but ultimately honoring the reader and the writer?!

I won't apologize for aspiring to write for a conjectured literary cyber-Louvre. It's a distinction, an art, and my raison d'etre.  I make no apologies. Every word writ must swing for the fences or what's the point?

Verily, expression is provoked and accomplished were the ink and paper required to be made, myself, from scratch! Breathing is a similar activity, but one can use the metaphoric bodily process they're more comfortable with, personally.  It's still breathing to me...

I believe words are paint, remember. Every word is a drop of color. Sentences are brushstrokes, paragraphs are portraits, and pages are the considered landscapes of our psychological sea, land, and fire-colored sky... I regret you can't catch the "wave," if you can't, eh?

Tsk.

Yes, words are weapons and tools! ...Immortal and magic, too! They can be in more than one place at the same time and they even travel long distances in time...

...But first, they are a paint perceived in a mind's eye. They create pictures in the brain with brushes moving at the speed of thought to take the reader where the reader's never been... or where the reader needs to go... again...

...Still not "getting it," unsettled reader?

I submit that you might try just a little harder than a quick read on the "can" to facilitate or assist same. I write to improve us both, Sir or Madam, as I said, and leave the lower common denominator—quickly-digested—banal... to a legion of others interested in such. No literary snobbery here, just a preference for off an established path, beyond the "conventional wisdom," and outside the limiting "box," eh?

As the past confuses us, the present tempts us, and the future frightens us? Uhhh... use two visits to the can!

Besides, as I made abundantly clear in the entirely unashamed poetry above (if one was paying attention) maybe we need to more appreciate that "facilitating fog" protested! Perhaps these perceived mists are a creative mechanism, actually, a mechanism allowing the reader to get up a little closer to the discomfiting subject under scrutiny... for more of a shared and synergistic understanding, eh?

When not kissing... Reality does bite!

Without this artful mechanism? What remains may be too threatening a figure to countenance? Perhaps. We have to risk it.

This aforementioned and unrepentant literary zeitgeist is composed of hissing blades with claws like steak knives and teeth like envenomed Roman short swords. Seriously, let the verse and painstaking prose be a floral bouquet held in the dangerous paw of such as is described, eh? It remains, this intimated though offended beast won't suffer disrespect, aspersions on character, or treachery.

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Back at the ranch, I concede that today's arrogant and pissed-off authoritarian neo-pundit or psychopathic faux-patriot finds it convenient to profess a lack of understanding even when confronted with an egalitarian and oblique—if entirely direct—address of that understanding!

Shaped-charge drops from my pen... as hard to understand? I think not, reader.

...I don't remotely apologize, mind you, even as it goes without saying that one can query a specific lack of understanding at any time... sure, and we'll take it word for paint-filled word. But that's, actually, the problem isn't it?  Ask not what your blogger has done for you... especially when it's obvious; especially if it's constructively terrifying.

Trifling the author? One risks having the stainless steel blade-beast—alluded to above and pictured below—from leaping out of the fog, eh? Consider how useless your gun is in that scenario, eh? The word sneers at the gun because the finger writes and moves on reflecting a certain piety and aspiration to wit the gun can't appreciate.

Was there an alternate prediction, aspiration, or initiative? Be the first on your f'n block! That's why, it is suspected, I don't often (ever?) get a "what did you mean by..." my "such and so." Critiques are bereft of interrogative, only invective and insult. The writer aspires to truth. Maybe that's the problem. I won't quote Jack Nicholson. 

I suppose, if there was that... mythical ...lack (?)... of understanding... but I suspect that there is no need to go there. In the first place there is understanding enough. The silence of the unasked question speaks volumes! In the second? Personal cowardice, I suspect, is a ready culprit.

...Though, it remains. Many have discovered a beating heart beneath all this hissing metal. Most can rest assured.

It's the pompous human hubris sets me off, a lack of humility offends me, and sneers from the errant conflicted are to me as a full blue moon is to the "Loupe Garou." ...Attack my friends to unleash a real monster... eh?

...Not my problem though. I continue my epic song of conscience at my pleasure and the pleasure of a few friends not threatened by my sincerity or embarrassed by my sincere aspiration to some instructive creativity. The rest can attempt to lead, intelligently follow... or just get the hell out of my way, eh?

I would soar and cleave. Lose a hand to belligerently or mendaciously restrain me. Poke me and pull back a painful nub. Prick me, and the pricker will bleed. "Lack of understanding" is not an accepted default excuse. I will eat you, saltless.

Restore John Ford!

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Errol

Errol Bruce-Knapp, of UFO UpDates, Strange Days — Indeed, the Virtually Strange Network... ...and the coiner of the expression &qu...