The Gate: Sport-of-Thesaurus

Cyber-homeschooling teacher narrates his (own) Saturday's Eve dystopian stranger encounter concerning some incomplete-arts 'request' for things of Earthling (American) chandeliers.

A sports trading card dystopia yarn for your Thursday, drawn from the social controls deformity Purge series, which I hope you like, 

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"Let me tell you of my dark half, someone who's not actually me, but someone who visited me while I'd been living in my social alma mater house ('the Gate') as a cyber-homeschool teacher for varied sportsmanship/capitalism 'culture' subjects like Olympics antiterrorism and Super Bowl ad-language jellyfish. This dark half, this other person, knocked on my door one Saturday post-midnight; and I knew he was my diametric opposite that October-night, Halloween season. He was in 'festive' Halloween-season mask; and he made 'mark' of me as an education 'environment' nerdist of American Homeland ethos of social activity share(s)."

STRANGER: Knock, knock, teacher.

ME: What do you want...it's midnight, stranger.

STRANGER: You wrote about the Buffalo Bills on your board, teacher?

ME: What's it to you, stranger-man?

STRANGER: You wrote about that new-gen Bills-QB rookie-card trophy.

ME: What's it relevance this midnight-hour at my Gate, man?

STRANGER: I want you to procure a copy for me; I'll return next Saturday.

ME: If I fail to do this ridiculous task for ya?

STRANGER: Then I'll huff and burn your Gate down, teacher.

ME: That's arms (Facebook-like).

"The stranger insisted I get a copy of my 'fantastic' NY-Buffalo pro-football spirits trophy, a new-gen QB-rookie card re-presenting my cyber-homeschool interest/IQ for things of competition, local/regional American Homeland team/town spirit(s), resilience for field goals and profit-pyramids, and general Earth-realm jazz (ok). I'd no choice now but to get a copy of the trophy online and have it express-mail sent to the Gate (my house!) by the next Saturday; and so I did, waiting for the Halloween-season masked-man to knock/return/procure/pardon."

STRANGER: Knock, knock, teacher.

ME: I got you the card/copy and a limericks/art book (too!).

STRANGER: Book?

ME: Yes, you shall find the Bills-QB card and this art/book is (all) American Earth!

STRANGER: Earth.

ME: Yes, stranger-man...I made 'wage' you knocked on the Gate for religion.

STRANGER: Religion?
ME: Stranger-man, as a teacher I'd guessed that you wanted consumerism (ok).

STRANGER: Interesting...keep it secret, or I'll bloody murder ya, teacher.

ME: Cool (Facebook-like for bazaars).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)

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