TRYING TO DESTROY THE KITCHEN WINDOW WITH A JEWEL-ENCRUSTED EGG IS FUTILE.

—Zork (1980)

 

Oh, let me have this one. We should not

focus on the loveliness of words, rather the scaffolded

 

lexicon called humans they pass through. My rent-controlled

apartment for a horse decked with rubies and insulin vials.

 

True power: language and none of its consequences.

Walk north, west, south, west—you carry a bag of leaves,

 

the egg, and some dangling participles.…

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