Stein named Ezra the village
explainer an ironically compulsive
need to compulsively explain the need
to explain compulsively yet the question
belongs to the questioner who expects
an explanation as owed though the question
gave nothing to be owed owning only
the question and the added attention demanded
of the question to explain through an answer
embedded in the question redirected through
misdirection and repetition until the expected
explanation is provided without interest
in a personal explanation of the question to need
to explain how not to explain compulsively
one asks the questions as a deflection from
the original guilt and shame implied obsessively
by having to explain at least a little why the
question questions the need obsessively answered
in the explanation provided for free without owing
any implied interest in the answer or question
beyond the power to hide the power in the question
by forcing the inarticulate villagers to explain
(June 21, 2014)
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