“To you, we puppets seem less than live, because our consciousness is that of dummies, made to sit on laps of gods as we mouth their wit

Are you, our human gods, likewise dangled from your rods, and your gift of showing spontaneous charm, some higher god's inserted arm?

We seem to form a nested set, with each the next one's marionette, so whom among you will insist, that you're the last ventriloquist?”

~ T. Melnechuk