It happened very quickly. At some crappy time in the U.S when I was deeply unconscious and far from the world of the, ‘living dead,’… the playground boards…
The whole kit caboodle was called off.
No real explanation, just a non-stop torrent of spin doktor swill, verbal chewings and spat out; ‘facts,’ ‘lies,’ conjecture… pig ignorance and unmoveable - set in stone - rigour.
That was the state of what had been billed by everyone, even half involved cynics as; ‘the greatest board war, in the history of the internet..’
…and I by god, I had a playing shirt on.
Yet when I put in an appearance it was stillborn. Deader than a sack of shrivelled eyeballs.
But then, like a gothic cloud of vampires and godless horrors - some good old boys made a, ‘freelance,’ off the cuff appearance, and bestowed their foul countenance upon us, at the home team. And after an ankle-smashing skid across the playing field they settled down - we were back in business.
And then, crazily - at some early point - in a surreal departure from the, ‘shits and giggles,’ philosophy so beloved by the writing maniac, all semblance of a ‘team,’ vaporised under an ill thought out smear campaign, that was as futile as it was unreadable. It made no sense, it was unfunny, it got on my tits. But it was ignorable.
The thing that wasn’t though was the nagging suspicion that I was being left out of something, some plan. Some bit of information about something… and combined with the complete absence of the guys who apparently were the go-getters, the mister fix-it’s, the town toughies.. well…what’s going on ..? eh..?
…and when you start thinking that kind of thing after only three days of quite happily kicking a willing human beach ball about, you know its only a matter of time before you want to bail out… retreat and mull things over.
Combined also with the very clear fact that you opponents seem to be more fun too. And possibly better mannered in real life.
So I said so long – and turned Tommy up to full volume….
Right behind you I see the millions
On you I see the glory.
From you I get opinions
From you I get the story…
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