Until now we have been safe from most big things
but as you all know, big things frighten small objects.
There was a place where eddies never ceased to swirl
where the sodium club convened to discuss the new juicy puce appendage.
but i knew it couldn't be real. there were no rules, which is impossible.
In a sink-or-swim world, I was afraid to touch the water.
So then, didactic trial lawyer, offer offal to the right ritual.
I really just don't understand
stand under the don't tree and riddle me this, Doctor Lovely
Is it still three licks, or perchance to viddy well?
Is it still? Perchance thee there, three again, well?
Are you here or lost in a sea of it.
Are you bespectacled, a swarm, of molecular?
I wear glasses if that's what you're asking. All these
questions buzz around my head like angry flies.  Black bodied
and enveloped in slime.  Is this
what there is after Uraguay? After the rain spelled us out
we were exhaustingly clear with one another
; we told each other that sorrow makes a lovely wine stain &
tipped the cup to watch it make exquisite droplets
into our eyes.  It hurt to know water
it hurt to know none. What I'm saying is I thirst.