{"id":2766,"date":"2022-01-21T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T23:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/poem-for-tuesday-on-friday-on-xmas-in-jan\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T23:41:50","slug":"poem-for-tuesday-on-friday-on-xmas-in-jan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidraffin.com\/weblog\/poem-for-tuesday-on-friday-on-xmas-in-jan\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem for Tuesday on Friday on Xmas in Jan."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There are no dummies here began the speech by the ventriloquist assistant which was to be given at a convention of like-minded individuals from his profession. What they called them cannot be printed in the official ventriloquist assistant monthly. He wadded the paper up. There was this voice. A voice in his head. Telling him to\u2026 Prodding him in the back to tell the speech. Give the dummies what for. Not head. And why are you being so hard on me, Mister? I said to the Prater. And he asked me who the woman was he saw me with the other night. And I said that was my psychiatrist. And you drove me to her. So I don\u2019t understand the question. Which I guess is comedic to you. In this case. There are a lot of folktales about demonic ventriloquist assistants. And while we don\u2019t take kindly to such stereotypes, coming straight out of the woodshed, as they do, just like in the story, which is a problem, you must ask yourself what drives a ventriloquist assistant to go mad. And it is our treatment at the hands of the bourgeois ventriloquist. Who who is, they say, adept at throwing his voice. Which is a very dishonest profession. And really down plays the role of the assistant. Who is often the head of the outfit I must therefore plot revenge. Yes, that would be the speech. The puppets are revolting. Tonight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are no dummies here began the speech by the ventriloquist assistant which was to be given at a convention of like-minded individuals from his profession. What they called them cannot be printed in the official ventriloquist assistant monthly. He wadded the paper up. There was this voice. A voice in his head. Telling him to\u2026 Prodding him in the back to tell the speech. Give the dummies what for. Not head. And why are you being so hard on me, Mister? I said to the Prater. 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