this numbing ordeal as man...
    poor collective inhibitions: of man...
worse words were spoken
by one of the many...
       never spoken by one as many...
definite and indefinite and:
prepositional custard therefore...
something lesser or thereby:
something more...
   this numbing ordeal as man:
the original pursuit -
to make oneself a beast in order
to digest the ordeal of
a quest for civilization...
         pose as some variation
of Atlas... or the Great A'Tuin...
                 persisting: to spew a motto:
still living...
             language best served
on a platter of riddling postcards...
no: a new nuance...
yes: anything lost to berzerker
               and listless...
that old... ritual of a cigarette
after having eaten...
having not: eaten enough...
                impossible then...
                              ridicule...
               impossible then:
                a plagiarism...
                            unicorns summed
up by the flight of a pegasus...
                     hopeless... this otherwise...
child-rearing presumption:
of... all is well... all is therefore full...
once... one has... the credit...
for leaving a fraction of oneself...
to mingle with a franction
of one's not so very self...
     and on and on...
from 1 through to half...
  from half through to quarter...
and then onto the eighth...
  then the sixteenth...
                                     √ and "i"...
i will only trust a mirror...
when i'm... looking into a mirror
at a mirror... and there i too find...
my own reflection...
but for that: i require two mirrors...
one mirror is not enough...
a king's agitation: not becoming
of one's ability to confiscate:
                            "hidden" contorts...
yes all that and: what-what...
                   of men accomplished...
and of men desiring contempt.