There is no room, but elephants graze
there, flapping their wings until the
lake boils over & the Reverend Charles
Dodgson is forced to come & rescue
them. That's the problem with summer
in the high country — little or no pre-
cipitation, so dry that residents live on
the edge of madness most of the time,
unsure if the char-à-bancs will come or if
the lobsters will be home in time for tea.
The fundamental aim in the linguistic analysis of a language L
is to separate the grammatical sequences which are the sentences
of L from the ungrammatical sequences which are not sentences of L.
— Noam Chomsky: Syntactic Structures.
There is such a thing as the self: the no-
self theory is not about the self at all —
both statements do not need any proof
or explanation, but together they are
somewhat contradictory. "Life, Liberty
& the pursuit of Hippyness" is fine
unless you're a Cretan, because then
you have Epimenides doing a polka
with Thomas Jefferson in polka dots.
But Epimenides was a Cretan & T.
Jefferson owned about 600 slaves in
his lifetime, so self-evidence here turns
into nothing but verbosity, purely subject-
ive, & definitely objectionable overall.
A political pamphlet written by the Irish
A vividly-detailed pirate skull
patch trapped behind the desk
informs me that my ham will
last the distance. Meanwhile I
devour an order of fries with
cheese like a post hibernation
bear. I'm still trying to decide if
my food fetish is part of a sister
trope to melodrama or caused
by a lobster being heterozygous.
Potatoes don't help. The Green
Mediterranean diet just might.
The Night of The Jackal
As lost insecticides embrace
the planet & sun-colored
cortèges burrow into the desert,
Anubis, funeral director &
puppeteer extraordinaire,
alights from his e-chariot,
bumps fists with the delighted
crowd of his myriad madding
admirers, & lights the gas jets of
the only crematorium in town.