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>*It is the science of repetitive images. We have been hypnotized. And it would do well for more of us to see that.*

Stories about the erudite bums that suddenly appeared in key spots all over NYC had been front page news for a week now. The bums were drawing larger and larger crowds, entertainment being so scarce these days. 

"Cool BEANS!!!" I heard one person exclaim, eager for the performance to begin. His attention, and mine, and that of everyone crowded around the city-wide bums, focused on the spoken words, each listener an epiphany. 

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>*The line drawn is only as straight
as the mind holding the pencil
in its maw or its craw
or preferably its loving hands*

>*Let your hands hold the love we have been denied
Let your enslavement end* 
 

>*It is too late to save everyone
but not too late to save yourself*

>*Shed the delusions you have been fed*



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This is my entry to @mariannewest's [daily freewrite challenge](https://steemit.com/hive-161155/@mariannewest/day-1392-5-minute-freewrite-friday-prompt-cool-beans). Today's prompt is ***cool beans***. 

I tinkered with this before posting it so that it would make sense, if only to me. 

Inspired in large part by [this story](https://peakd.com/fiction/@riverflows/the-tracers) by @riverflows 
 

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<center>*image by @wales*</center>