Graceless?

 As I regained my control and focus, I took in  this new bombardment, relentless it instantly tried to take hold, it had all the elements of awe. This golden machine of excess had pulled out all the stops, it had obviously been studying us and this is its timely solution. The golden boar lunged with all the passion and flare, she has an objective and nothing is keeping her from it, I was hit with a blow to the senses...I couldn't keep up, there was devastating information about the youngest of us, running on a hideous ticker-tape style flagship banner. What the h*ll are you chucking at me now machine, ha, I can handle this....then...the images.....the facts....the advice from other people who know what to do in a situation like this, dammit! I can't move. What about me!!! my family...are we safe...a...a...aahhhhhhhh....needless to say this is the point I break. I stare blanky at the horror and feel......entertained....ahhh...that's nice....wait, wait a minute....no...no...shake it off, look away, its not nice, we are not meant to glamorize the ills of this world, set a stage of fame for the sick minded, Glorification of the inhumane.

I rise up...concentrate, stare right at the golden boar, this oily ranting mechanism and do it. Click. All is silent...weird. This thing was ferocious, I prepare for an encore, these things are crafty, Sometimes they'll take you right to the limit, then give us a break....and help us out with very useful things for our day to day lives.

The silence helps me breathe and the breathing helps me think, first of all what the hell was that thing and how did I kill it so easily. I look at the black ringed contraption that acted as sort of a home for the thing. Cautiously I step around the contraption and instantly dive for cover...aha....dirty rotten, son of a....the things got a lifeline, its just pretending....HA! This thing was so hideous and within such close proximity to my camp that I could not afford to delay, before I could even take in my actions I had lunged for the lifeline and held it in a vicious choke hold right at the point it entered my camp. It was protected by a clever mechanical device, kind of a hexagon plated ring, I noticed if I line up a thumb and forefinger I could mimic a part of the 'machine' and the device just might accept me as one of their own. I was right it will work as long as I pinch my fingers together as tight as mechanically possible, I feel it, slightly, giving,  pain, ouch, must not relent, damn this flesh and bone at times, especially in the gladiator ring, with an extension of the machine. Finally after what seemed like, well you know, it moved, the device was spinning in a counterclockwise motion and seemed to be repelled by the devise it was once merged with.

 I yank the extension of the black ringed thing housing the beast, and hold it high in the air, quickly I look over at the base of the connection and just observe for a few moments to make sure the machine has definitely retreated and sees no more gain from this source.....yes, it has retreated. Drained from the close call, I lay back on my thatched willow branches from the night before, not a few moments pass and a repetitive digital noise gained my attention. I jumped up and began flailing around my makeshift camp looking for the source of the repetitive digital noise. There it is, a new small, very, very appealing piece of the machine...look at it, almost like the black ringed device that was housing the 'scary as shit' boar I just went to task with. I go for it, pumped, nothing will stop me today after that last scrap, I start pressing the glowing funky shaped buttons looking for some kind of reaction from the thing.

 Then I hear it, unmistakable, human, one of us...whew, that was tense....'Hello Sir?'....'uh, y, yes...hello,' I reply. 'Sir we have noticed you have decided not to view the most entertaining selection we have made for you this evening on the black plastic ringed device, might we inquire as to why?''Shit, why did I not see this coming! of course, the machine notices that I have lopped of an extension and seductively contacts me via...one of my own!!! uuummm, yeah, all good here, everything nominal, Thank you........' Sir, if I might have a moment, your not planning on discontinuing this entertaining service are you?'....uuuhhh, yeah why yes, done, do that, just what you said.......save me independently approaching the machine, totally hazardous for the unwary.' But, Sir, if I can offer you a discount for the next 6 years would you be interested?', 'No, forget the discount, forget the entertaining service...Leave me alone, I proclaim as I chuck the small sweet looking extension of the machine in the direction of the dusty, smelly massive herd off in the distance.

We notice each other at the exact moment, again just when I think I am free for a moment, nadda, What to do with you...you...black ringed device that housed the golden boar from the massive herd....then it was like one of those epic moments in time, the black ringed device said nothing...didn't have to...it was more of the way it faced me...us...this union of laughter, tears, joy, panic......frick......entertainment dammit and some sweet times. I don't hate the machine, I fear it, I need it and I use it, this black ringed thing isn't to blame for the carnage, it got swept up in the frenzy. So I make a decision, will it hurt me in the end, I don't know, am I just afraid to be alone on this endless pursuit of the massive golden herd, I don't know, we'll try it and see, I will use it to selectively be entertained during what will most likely be a long pursuit and I don't know, somehow getting rid of this black ringed device would be sacrilege, kind of like asking Gandalf to leave. R7