What is the World Becoming?

They 3D printed a complete human today out of pewter and petri dish guts. We can all stop wondering what this world is coming to. Supermodels gave up, curled their nude bodies into fetal positions and rested their woeful heads upon fieldstone as the rest of nature crinkled into shiny plastic wrap. Blurry-fur Siamese kittens scratched Chinese characters in the sand with diamond tipped claws as time spooled out, revealing quantum string theory reality. Mobius sculpture has become all the rage. Electromagnetic microwaves chrome plate grocery store shopping carts, and turnstiles allowing only one per customer. A scarecrow hitchhiker wears a bolo tie and plays banjo while sitting on his suitcase at the side of the highway, waiting for his next ride. In the middle of the night, a nursery-rhyme-full-moon rises above a lego built city. Bandy roosters from a hippie commune evolve into asexual quadrupeds and return to the sea. Vast herds of sheep are branded with a red, all seeing Illuminati eye, then free-ranged to circle pyramids, exchanging chants of Om for Baaaa. A tired circus elephant is ordered to stand in the corner as townies bounce stale marshmallows off his back. A seven year old child poses for his drivers license ID photo with a tin pot twined on his head. Teething one-year-olds and cloned mastodons, soccer moms and John Singer Sargent, all fossils in the supermarket ice cream novelty section. Oh, it's very, very clear what this world is becoming.

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