25 June 2023

Four Poems by Mark Young

A line from Charles Darwin

 

There are cardboard characters

available at Walmart — at least

that's what the ads say. Nothing

adds life to the party like a cutout

 

standee for guests to pose with. &

on the subject of cardboard, it's

interesting that sellers on eBay

are already attempting to cash in,

 

auctioning off Silicon Valley Bank-

branded merch, including a card-

board box for $201. Cake decorating

tools & kits are also available; though

 

they come with a warning that the

increased BN level is an artifact of

grain size. Those are some of the

things we've noted so far, in the early

 

stages of our literature review. Still,

we're getting a glimpse of what is to

come when a conceptually organized

synthesis starts grinding out conclusions.

 

 

A line from Catullus

 

I'm new to the free weight scene. My

friend, the sculptor Giacometti, be-

lieves that now the sugar-free diet has

exploded into the health & wellness

 

arena, training with free weights per-

mits the brain to sense what is going

on beneath the skin. I only feel it, but

Alberto tells me Shakespeare had a lot

 

to say, in a lot of places. I'd be excited

to be able to follow it up; but I'm just too

busy trying to adapt road tubeless tire

& wheel technology to mountain bikes.

 

 

A line from Khloe Kardashian

 

Somebody said this. & then some-

body else. Decided I'd join the club

& say it myself — there's nothing

better than being better than you

 

used to be. So I talked to my sisters,

did some intense anger management

training, then went out & single-hand-

edly did away with all world hunger.

 

 

A line from Baruch Spinoza

 

The industry standard in hand

pallet jacks is made up of a part-

icular amino acid sequence & can

serve as a discreet, digital inter-

 

face that augments geothermal

power plants so that they produce

negligible noise, with levels at that

of normal 16kWh lithium batteries.

 

There are more expensive versions

which can be retrofitted to include

a control panel with display or do-

uble brushes; but too many apps

 

will significantly increase the noise

level. Leaving them off will not

affect the jack's efficacy, & will still

allow the same capacity to be silent.