as if that dried little puddlet of institutional pink soft-soap
were a Brobdingnagian slab of vaguely porcine jade
some secret of a Jomon Mu, or the strange living
interface of a Struldbruggian collective memory
into which he would divulge his inner self
as a random derivation of subject, a
Hirngespinst of openings, and imagine
being naked there, on the brink of a cosmological
porcelain, bowing down to touch his forehead
to the pink hum, some memory of a dark
thundercloud furrowed like sable static,
and in the air (that blizzard of invisible strings)
improbable, the waxy whiskered avatar with a yellow
baseball cap, whose embroidered ensign, a Haida sun
symbol, reasons, and checking its temporary beard
against that section of mirror, some species of absolute
surface, temporal in God’s public rest-room, forever awake,
awakening, but reflecting reflection’s commentaries like a head
bristling with chrome gargoyles (drooling pink molten jade),
the little imp would disappear, but its perversity live on,
a ray, the pink that, splendor of a bounce.

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