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Pool Together Our Money

September 2, 1998

spill the beans and get it over
with - but that seems valid, like it’s such

a natural thing to say
that is very physical, well,
it’s something we should all know
like something we were forced

if only we could have been
strong enough to pool together
our money and tried to
beat the bidding for blood

for the next to get the damage.

when i learned,
what I learned was little.
Sometimes the most
insane people somehow
got in charge of teaching,
I’d guess that it would be
probably because they

lied their way to the
right job, but I haven’t
done a lot of research
on this so I could be wrong,
but I think somehow,
somewhere, someone
was put in charge of deciding
who would learn what,

and I think those people
who really actually know
very little, decided to pull
one big joke over on the students
and the world, well, I think
that all of these
people, all the ones with no real brains to
speak of, all these people just
decided to screw up all

the good things that were
supposed to be
produced by intelligent
people in intelligent parts of
what we should think of as
the possible intelligent world.
Well, that’s my story and I’m
sticking with it.

well, what I think happened
was that all of these people
with no real intelligence
decided to create a joke
or take over the would
or whatever and they
decided to make all the intelligence
they could find, and they

decided to destroy that
intelligence. There’s really
no other way to explain it, other than
to just make people stupid, in a way that no one
could ever think to be
aware of
but no one would get it, and all the
stupid people would gain their

strength somehow. At
least that’s m little theory.

and now, no one has the
skill to defend themselves,
much less the skill to set busy
defending anyone else. Well,
that would kind of be what
the world would be like if we lost all

intelligence, but it would kind
of also be like the way the world is
kind of like Now. Don’t get busy
thinking about that idea now, let’s just
figure out what we can do about it.

so this is the way that people
with no talent manage to screw

people with talent over, so that the
people without talent can rise in their
fame and everyone can suffer in the
process.

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Pool Together Our Money (edited)

the most insane people got in charge
of teaching, they probably
lied their way to the right job
somehow, somewhere, someone
was put in charge of deciding who would learn what,
and I think those people really actually know
very little decided to pull one big joke
over on the students and the world

spill the beans and get it over with
it’s something we should all know
if only we could have been strong enough
to pool together our money and tried
to beat the extracting of blood

all of these people with no real brains
decided to screw up all the good things
that were supposed to be produced by intelligent
people in intelligent parts of the world

all of these people with no real intelligence
decided to create a joke
and they decided to take all the intelligence
they could find, and they decided to destroy that

just make people stupid, in a way that no one
could ever think of
all the stupid people would gain their strength

so this is the way that people with no talent
manage to rise in their fame
and everyone can suffer in the process

no one has the skill to defend
themselves or anyone else
that is the world if we lost all intelligence

isn’t that the world now


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