The Sword & the Shy

Portrait of Earthling troubles 'magnetized' by the presence of dark-message 'Strangers' requiring special view of bureaucracy-arts.

Portrait of Earthling-consciousness for the 'game' of metaphysics/resilience in times of troubles, with religious overtones; drawn from varied media. 

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Now, I had resolved to become a dutiful infiltrations journal-man in Eastern Europe, having moved there for cyber-homeschooling venture pre-invasion by Russia; and when the war was in full-force, I was in mask and wielding photo tools and 'toys' to dissect/appreciate the scopes and scales of Earthling troubles of manmade bureaucracy-arts (Selfie-like!).

I learned much of the darkness of Earth motions in this time of adventurism and 'mercenary-like' sensibilities for photo/journal work in Eastern Europe (sure). I met terrific citizenry/soldiers/refugees who caught that language-arts hand axes of what made this time on Earth a special invocation of the swords-and-quills of the human experience/examination; and as a Catholic-Bostonian in my 'former' life, I knew of the stranger Christian parable-concept of the fall of graces from the paradise that was the once-created Eden (caveman-days?) and the omens of the coming messages of more 'stern' colors of mankind's woes (e.g., AntiChrist, Revelation). This was to be Facebook-like (surely).

Why then, would one thing, that this time of tribulations of Earthlings (e.g., Coronavirus) would bring into surface-view a special trio of even darker troublemakers, masked and anonymous, apparently actual Strangers of Earth? That's what I noted in Eastern Europe, and it's not 'good' fiction' for the Ego. These Strangers were demonic and nihilistic, to be sure. They carried weapons meant to give the post-midnight street-gait visage of outright threats to normalized-life thinking for the war-ridden region of Earth where I worked as a sort of 'James Bond' journal-man (damn). These Strangers didn't seek to bloody-murder anyone but to create a negative form of superstition for eerie storytelling paranoia (Selfie-like!).

ME: What do you want with these poor/troubled/vigilant Euros, Strangers?
STRANGERS: We're simply messengers of the dark-side, friend of Earth (ha).

ME: You look like Boogeymen from Hell, damn.

STRANGERS: Care for some of our absinthe?

ME: Maybe I've become a medium-man for some resolution of sanity for people!

STRANGERS: Good for you...but someone's to bring an omen of layered worries?

ME: Why you?
STRANGER: We're Strangers, no?

ME: Of the aggressive uncertainty-variety (Selfie-like).

STRANGERS: We'll self-exile (somewhere!) once troubles quiet for chandeliers!

ME: Good thought for the Ego (surely).

"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)