A flying guillotine came for the last titan Capitalism's head.
A spontaneous, quasi-intelligent manifestation of vengeance,
Not created by any one person, ideology, or belief system,
It's not even so much that the people
So shat upon
Truly wanted to take their master's head
And run free
Or whatever
It's kinda like ... it was Guillotine Time, and the appointment just had to be kept.
Times are hectic
Post-decapitation
And you gotta suit up hazard-serious
To protect yourself from the miasma of rumors and conspiracy theories and self-serving rhetoric and jumbo-mumbling sermons-
-but
I've talked to a couple of people who examined the titan's corpse
and they claim that on the lower back
attached to the titan's utility belt
there was a custom holster that no doubt coulda held a blade-for-throwing ...
I haven't seen it myself.
But why would people lie like that, tho', surely people aren't that far gone.
How you make a buck offa story like that?
It's got to be true ...
(shrug)
... a lie would be ... just so much sexier ... a proper villain ... a heroic struggle to the last ...
(shrug)
I mean shit.
I want the old bullshit right about now.
I hated the fucking titan like everyone else.
But this is so shocking.
I mean, I'm a fuck-up. I have no plan. I never had a plan. I own it. I own my fuck-up-a-tudinossity. I'll lump it.
But the titan ... Jesus Fucking Christ ... how could the titan just do itself like that?
Where was THAT in the Big Greed Program?
Musta been buried deep.
You might notice me wearing this armored collar.
Tres chic.
And also ... everybody suddenly thinks it's super fucking cool to be tossing goddamn blades all over the place.
What the blue fuck, people,
What the blue fuck.
Still,
I got, like, a quarter of an all right haircut
Gratis
Just out walking around
Didn't even have to make the trip to the barber college across town.
So,
like,
It's not all the bad kind of stress.
Just gotta be a little more awake,
A little more alive to the possibilities,
To all the wonderful new opportunities
Inherent within the New Fake Normal,
the New Clusterfuck Reality,
it'll be all right.
-April 2020.
Copyright 2020 by William D. Tucker. All rights reserved.
