everyone in Blawnox wondered
why that coin purse
(and the aerial gunship)
cost 113 quadrillion quatloos,
when Triskelion currency ought
to be pegged to
the exchange rate between
Orson Bean’s fortune and
a hill of beans.
didn’t add up to
a full sentence, but
as reality itself collapsed
around the movie star,
he got sucked in
to a guest appearance
on “Reality Sucks!” and
had all his dirty
thoughts exposed to the
Thought Police, but they
simply had their brains