chukkabook (as in hoo!) chukkabook
rabbit headed mesmerists dance in a chain
around a tub
an old woman thrashing there in deslon's "fluid"
an android built by the members of
S.A.P.I.E.N.C.E.
whose five year mission
now crumbles on the moon
cheez-it jesu staring into vacuum
robo-burros wandering
tumped over
near a pan-galactic scrubbing rock
which is painted with an image
of Franklin's garden at Passy
the five trees the convulsant at the foot
of number 4 instead of 5 crushing mesmerism
but leaving a trace of -1

O negative one
ye whose determination
is the conduit of a groundling's
wave

raise up thy hand
"animal magnetism, dead, ridiculed"
not the theory
but the testament

or is it a mistake
in the fluid.
not unlike
the Senecan grotesque
who stands in the tub
the Santayanan "is"
which ponders
what is this wet fish
in a wondrous container?

Why not be "fluidists," if the
frock is sharply tailored?

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