Prince/Pauper

Prince/Pauper

A Story by Abishai100
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Separated twins (prince/pauper) play an ID-exchange game of capitalism symbol in a new Earth of large helmets for field goals.

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A fun Father's Day adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper. Enjoy! 
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Amlan Satan had been separated from his twin brother, of royal Algerian family, after moving to America and opting to make himself a street-borne man of means and survivalism, convinced there was no sure way to harness ambition's raw intelligence without integrating into the pedestrian world of capitalism's ladders and challenges for education/liberty (hmmm).



He'd become a diamond thief and operated in a Homeland-Jersey area by the waters where rumors of conflict-zone smugglers roads extractions for rogue finance and fatso-investment corruption hand-axes drew out a stranger vigilante sensibility in the man of the streets, once a brother of a prince of a royal establishment outside the States, as Halloween approached.



Ajay Satan remained a pampered prince of New England and learned to adapt his inherent interest in consumerism consciousness in the new millennium into cyber-storyboards about the exchanges of goods erecting fashion's hand-axes for the couture and aesthetic of worldly arts for capitalism (wow). Well, Amlan Satan visited Ajay Satan and made a proposition to 'trade-places' with him (given their twin-appearance/resemblance) and perform a special blood-diamond heist together, using each other as fake account openers visiting the bank in repetition following an actual bank-box burn and swap with eco-message glass-animal toys for an insurance joke for the streets (Selfie-like!).



AMLAN: Why don't you try your hand as the thief in another adventure with me?
AJAY: I get weary; that Halloween 'deed' was eco-capitalism at best for folklore!
AMLAN: I've become a street-artist, brother; would be amused to see you think.
AJAY: I think like you, and I prefer the towers of civilization for self-erudition!
AMLAN: Remain a prince, brother...I maybe am a pauper by instinct (not you).
AJAY: Interesting activity linked education for the brain, eh?
AMLAN: Good (thanx).



INTERPOL: Strange tidings tied to street gossip of blood-gems (insured).
BANK MANAGER: Fatso-investors tie hands for African shores/mining.
INTERPOL: World humor for superstitions in treasure-motions folklore, no?
BANK MANAGER: Perchance we remain 'immune' from such vanities/IQ.
INTERPOL: Good (thanx).



The lesson of this unusual 'folk' tale concerns incomplete-readings of what makes society architecture and the personalities behind/surrounding it a reflection vanity-mirror for 'examinations' of roles, helmets, field goals, capitalism, life, worry, ingenuity, and governance. Was Amlan (the pauper) ironically more 'gifted' than Ajay (the prince) for real estate value (Selfie-like)?



"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)

© 2024 Abishai100


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Added on June 16, 2024
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