to
mentor unenlightened souls,
he
can’t exist without a protégé –
a
malleable creature he could 
sway
to-ward his vision of what 
he could
confidently say was his 
self-evidently
viable reliance upon 
values
that authoritatively made 
sense,
but evanescently: born of 
aperçus, velleities and other super-
subtle
inclinations that accrue 
from
the dimensions of applying 
one’s
attention to correct esthetic 
pensive
sorts of meditation based 
on Pater,
Wilde and (odd to some
but
not to him) the latter works 
of
Erma Bombeck, which together 
constitutively
project a sure yet 
flexible
recourse to which you 
could
repair, beyond what your 
despairing
puny consciousness 
alone
could bring to bear on 
anything
at all. Upon whoever 
cleaved
to what this sage believed, 
would,
without fail, befall the sort 
of wealth
of meaning that ensues 
in
lives lived by and through his 
kind
of supple scruple, not the 
unavailing
stolen goods, the pelf, 
to
which the avarice of greedy 
grasping
hands remands the 
unenlightened
soul. But by this 
time
a protégé with half a mind
will
have divined the whole 
scenario:
like an asexual Lothario 
who
out of habit acts as if he lusts 
for
prey, or a psychotic Santa 
who
has managed to waylay his 
last
remaining elf, he’ll only ever
have
been talking to himself.
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