the glass beside his hand glared down hard and like water oddly opaque it magnified the words he wrote earlier

(Oct 10 2015) 1961 Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon

moving the glass aside he read the quote above the inscription: He’s a sly-boots, a lazybones, and a thief, who lives

on nothing, and who understands only violence.

a helluva fortune from out of the crisp folds of a Chinese fortune cookie

it was two of five

twenty per cent                                     

not shabby

though it did cast a wide net for such a slender piece of paper

admittedly he was sly-boots

he preferred not showing his hand or revealing what he thought

he was a private person coddled his anonymity and bedeviled scratched his head at those around him who couldnt wait to open their mouths and divulge what they thought regardless of whether or not they knew what they were talking about to whoever would listen

or whomever

because

after all

it was only their opinion

and opinions carried no weight of being either true or false

they had no thought of their privacy of being surveilled or encroachment

they believed being revealed was inevitable and shamelessly seemed to want to hurry the process along keeping everyone on par equally exposed

assholes 

it never occurred to them

as with almost everything he might think of

the massive majority walks in a brilliant light

while an insidious microminority keeps to the dark unseen manipulative keeping watch of its inherent interests

he readily understood the second of two the Chinese fortune hit on correctly

Violence

he preferred passivism

he let a lot of things roll off his broad back

if nicked

or ticked

he was a spasm

a hot whips lash

a boil of lava

in love with the concussion of fists to skulls the pummeling of abdomens and kidneys

if passivism and reason floundered on reefs of violence

he was content its shoals were slivered with smashed ribs and hulls deflowered and broken-lipped figureheads

the sage Chinese 

Taoists soothsayers haruspices osteomancers fortune cookie makers

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