Mechelangelo would drive the Julius II mechabot
towards the utopian city of Sforzinda
legs galloping chastely in the magnetic stirrups
swimming as a plesiosaur in the graceful humm
of the era's almost Minervan Panathenaicus
of sacred exoskeletal humanist historiography..

But Mechelangelo was on a mission! Approaching Sforzinda
one could see the great Temple of Hairspray with its wretched
bobble-head nozzle of Coca-Cola di Rienzo at the apex
blasting forth what the priests of the temple took to be a
loud and triumphant blast of harmony, but which Mechelangelo
took as a "res gestae mediocritas" swaddled in Oswaldian Spenglerisms.

Before he burst through the door of the Temple in a frenzy of
Virgilian Romanitas, Mechelangelo caused the Julius II mechabot
to face the direction of Fall and say a small Raphaelian prayer toward
the great lucidity, the great aletheia, toward the Triumph of Eternity:

"Has been" "shall be" and "was" exist no more,
But "is" and "now," "the present" and "today,"
"Eternity" alone, one and complete.

...
Ding-Dong

OOOh! What a lovely costume.
Are you a Robot Pope?

Hi Miss Paideia.
It's supposed to parody
humanist notions of perfection.

Is that you, Howard?
You are such a clever (odd) boy!

Yup.

Welll? (students..)

Trick or Treat! (I love Miss Paideia.)

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