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+title: Creation myth
+genre: verse
+
+id: creation-myth
+toc: "Creation myth"
+
+project:
+    title: Autocento of the breakfast table
+    class: autocento
+...
+
+| So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings
+| walk into a bar.  One turns to the other and says,
+| "Did you remember to check the end state
+| of that simulation we were running?"  The other
+| says, "No, I thought that you did?"  To which
+| the first replies, "[Oh shit][], we missed it.
+| I suppose we must do all of this again.  Barkeep,
+
+| two beers please."  The bartender nods in that way
+| that bartenders do, pours the two beers,
+| expertly, by the way, just so, and hands them
+| to the first [hyperintelligent pandimensional][] being.
+| The second one pulls a few singles out of his
+| wallet, places them on the bar, and the pair
+| turn around and begin walking toward a table
+| in the middle of the mostly-empty bar.  The bar-
+| tender picks up the money, fans it out, frowns,
+| and calls to his patrons' backs: "Hey, this
+| isn't enough!"  The two turn around simultan-
+| eously, with parity, and stare at him.  A beat.
+
+| One of them, the one without the beer, breaks
+| the silence by exclaiming, "Oh dear god, I'm
+| sorry!  I didn't know your prices went up since
+| last time.  What do I owe you?"  The bartender
+| says, "Oh, just another [dollar][]-fifty."  The being
+| reaches in his back pocket, slides out his
+| wallet, looks in smiling, and frowns when he sees
+| it's empty.  He looks to the other and says,
+| "You got a [buck][]-fifty I can borrow?"
+
+| The second hyperintelligent pandimensional being
+| considers this.  He sets the beers down
+| on the table, pulls out his own wallet, opens
+| it, and frowns.  "I'm broke too," he says.
+
+[hyperintelligent pandimensional]: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Mice
+[Oh shit]: movingsideways.html
+[dollar]: one-hundred-lines.html
+[buck]: plant.html