compromise

by chad_wthrfrd | Create your own Cartoon at www.toondoo.com

The Elders prayed to a deity named Compromise. They would take all of their toys, high school football trophies, old pictures, love letters, or anything else that might remind them of their youth to an altar that was hidden in the basement of the largest skyscraper in the City. While standing before a marble statue of a schoolmaster w/ ruler in hand, they would banish their memories w/ fire & gasoline. In the same basement, they had built replicas of the Berlin Wall & the Great Wall of China. They also had an impressive collection of velvet ropes- the kind that are used to distinguish the cool from the uncool. Their religion was abt discipline, order, & esp. Architecture. Ambiguity was something that they had invented to draw their lines even darker. What they had not counted on was that their children would be empowered by this golem. The Order of the Stone Heart begat The Order of the Green Fuse & hated it even more for being its own child. I remember when, in grade school, the teacher would suggest that the bully who was antagonizing the poor defenseless girl was actually infatuated w/ her.