There was a choice to be choosed but they didn’t let no one choose it because it was a choice and they don’t like choices. Not no more no how. Better to lead ‘em to where they need to be and not to where they’d want to go.

If they’d had that choice an’ all.

Bingo the dog loved Bilbo the parrot but no one let on that was where thing’s had got off to. They jus said that it’s all klinda fair and allowed and no one, not the cat, not the hamster, not the fish in the nice big tank over yonder at that big house, not even the mate of Bingo’s other side had much say on it. No rules and no rules ‘ceptin agin choice an’ all. Choosen’s bad I gess.

Gather ‘em up and bring ‘em in and make sure they just barely had enuf t’eat cuz the feed was runnin’ kinda low. Best not to let on tho cuz there could be some trouble if they sensed, as animals is sometime liken t’do, that there was somthin not all that right and that things might jus be a lil bit worse come the next day or may be it was the day after that.

But the only choice they had they choosed and that was the choosen of the feed that there was. Eat it and get a few minutes of rest from yer achin’ belly and bulging eyeballs.

Nah, we ain’t them kinda sheep but them others, well they jus might be and y’know I kinda feel a bit sorry for ‘em. They got no choice to be choosen at all. That there flickerin’ flame done flickered it’s last flame a long enuf time ago.

Back when the choosen was not all gone. Back when it was ok fer a man or a woman to think fer themselves.

Not today tho, no, not here and not now and prob’ly not really never agin. Life has done gone on and all the choosen is chosen and all the dreamin’ is dreamed and all the freedom that was done been given out and ain’t here no more. Not here and sure no not no more no how.

But they still sayin they eddicatin’ folks and that them folks get a free one at that. No need to pay no money even if there was anymore any money to be payen. Gone too, like the rest of that there stuff we knowed from them we don’t know longer be needin.

Kinda hard to remember this writin stuft- been so long since I used it that I done forgot mostly how it sets up an’ all. Kids don’t even know nothin’ bout it and not even how to write the name we’d given them fore’n that too was taken way. No names no more no way no how, not here no more no more.

And I hear it telled that them folks that get that freely eddication blessin’ don’t end up doin’ much wit it no hows. They jus say they got it and someone else tell them that’s all good an’ stuff but now they owed a lot back and they needed to pay fer it that way and not with that money that ain’t round here no more no how. No sur, not here.

Some sez you got to let ‘em take seize o yer soul but I don’t know much ‘bout that.

They took all dem souls and stuff away even fore the money.

“So went goes the soul so doth go den the money too” I ‘member the man sayin. And he sure nuff meant it I think. Seem smart an’ all.

Cuz it sure nuff is what come to be all that be true here now today and ain’t no choosen goin’ on no how bout any of it. N’er a lick, not here, no how. Not no more.