i'd find it, stupendously surprising,
if someone, who writes,
   whatever it might be,
   a "benign" poem, instead of a ******
novel -
   could do it...
   and at the same time:
  retain the ability -
   to solve crossword puzzles...

    i can... relatively speaking...
armed with an out-dated atlas -
sitting across from my grandmother,
in the morning, drinking coffee -
taking stabs at -
she does one, i do another -
   and basically - talking,
while solving a crossword puzzle -
see...
   she has an Alzheimer's "phobia"...
which my grandfather
compliments her on...

    but the brain is no muscle -
   apparently fat: has a complexity
to it - from what i heard -
  fat can insulate moderate electricity -
well... with all the miniscule
ingestion of minerals via water?
why wouldn't it?
      
  english newspaper crossword
puzzles?
     the ****'s too cryptic,
  even for my father,
   who does the rozrywka magazine
on a *******...
   (rozrywka magazyn -
             rozrywka Sp. z o.o.)...

but i write... i can't relax doing
a crossword puzzle,
   looking for intersections of my
vocabulary -
    i'm always staring at a blank,
a priori,
   and a "crossword puzzle"
                         a posteriori...

now... give me a numbers' "game"...
a puzzle -
   ah... how can you not relax
while sipping a russian standard
+ pepsi sharpshooter -
and solving a su doku to relax?
  
for example: no. 10,041?
        and the stated conditions?
  a ******* armchair -
      because?
    people apparently have an ability
to relax, on a beach, on holiday,
"reading" a book...
  who the **** reads a book,
to relax?
        to me, the lax or the increased
attention span... which folds
into, reading a book,
   has to be found in puzzles....

me? can't do word puzzles for ****...
but give me a puzzle based on
numbers?
     well...
         and there's nothing intelligent
about su doku:
   it's an optical puzzle -
            since numbers -
are more about the optics -
rather than anything cognitive...

it's what a chimp could do easily -
you fiddle with it,
eyes darting: because you never,
think about it...

but as i said:
    i don't believe, that someone,
     who writes, habitually,
can also solve crossword puzzles...
to me that's brain custard -
**** will simply not float to the surface
of persuasion...

where the puzzle?
  legacy media...
               sometimes i might read
an opinion column, sometimes an article
from the times...
   but mostly...
     i'm just here for the su doku.