Unequivocal Ambiguity

09 May 2009

·weaver

I was certainly unsure of how to approach a half-witted wise man with graceful reproach. An austerity glutton as ever there be, he's avertedly practiced enriched poverty. He's asked me to make a spontaneous plan so cleverly cockeyed and garishly bland to clearly befuddle those sly as a fox by secretly blurting a true paradox. My accurate estimate, what is the use? A random design is acutely obtuse. Through pure aimless purpose and unwilled intending, in hopeful despair my best thoughts began ending. What's inherently missing, I almost decide, I am creating nada, like when voids collide. I silently answered him, he saw right through it: "You've come up with nothing! I knew you could do it!"

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I was pieced together with five parts compassion, three parts empathy, three parts hard work, and two parts self-preservation; but then they decided that thirteen parts was bad luck and cut my regard for preservation down to one. It is...

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