THE GOOD WORD ACCORDING TO · THE ULTRA-HARRIER
VINNIE
The voice of John the BeadleThe masses are confused
Chapter 4
And the masses cried out to John, saying,
2“Far out!
3“That’s some pretty heavy excrement you’re laying on us here,
4“And why don’t you,
5“You know,
6“Lay some wisdom on us,
7“So we can, like, figure out what’s going down here?”
8Thereupon John commenced to otwist and shout like an ancient pholy man,
9qOr a modern rock star,
10And his words were a wonder to all those assembled, being all about vitreous rvegetables,
11And tusked smammals,
12And human females defying the laws of tphysics with chunks of compressed carbon,
13uAnd mobile aquatic domiciles of xanthic hue,
14And a bunch of other stuff too,
15Until the masses were starting to look at their watch a lot,
16Which made John get to the point,
17Finally,
18So that he summarized his remarks in simpler terms, saying,
19“I think we can all agree that everything has gotten very aconfusing,
20b“And there’s got to be a way out,
21“Some way that we can cwash our hands of everything,
22d“And not get involved in a lot of pointless pain and corruption and violence and heartbreak,
23“Because if everything’s going to turn out lousy anyway,
24“What’s the point in wearing yourself out,
25“For enothing?”
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