1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6.
H E X AG O N S
1.
FOR A. M.
WA L K I N G o n
I DEARLY WISH TO ENGAGE YOU,
capricious reader. Hold a place for me, I implore you, upon your bathroom bookshelf. Ruminate upon these waf ers of communion make-believe as you baptize your daily renderings of dark matter.
2.
JOIN ME IN FURIOUS DEBATE
within the cloistered cacophony of your skull. Learn, with me, the seductive parity that secretly links our plot-lines. Underneath the dinner table, let the friction of our slutty socked f eet find palatable the dessert course for which we have no proper utensil.
3. 4.
LET us FIND a BLOODIER bond
than kin or friendship; one which more keenly r e s e m b l e s a l i v e l y b u t d i s i n te r e s te d e m n i t y.
I WEAR THE SAME CHEAP VINYL skin everyone else does. I bleed jelly like Stretch Armstrong at the jibes of pricks. I bristle when contradicted and curse the knif e that heals me. Sue me, so. Only I’m human. The path we beat between our doors is paved with apologies and illuminated by misunderstandings. But let us bear with one another.
5.
LET’S AGREE TO BE
D I S AG R E E A B L E ENOUGH NOT TO CARE WHETHER OR NOT WE DISAGREE
until we’re both wearing bruised egos, both of us humbled and amused at having negotiated, upon the summit of our discord, a bold new way to share the onus of error.
6.
LET US, THEREFORE, GIVE
OUR LIVES OVER TO THE PURSUIT OF MEANING,
EVEN AT THE COST OF MADNESS .
Let us choose lives devoted to grandiose delusion. Let us each wander alone into the wilderness, and, by separate and solitary means, divine the location of the highest mountain imaginable. Thereto, let us scale the sheer rock face to an apogee unseen, so that when the air thins and the words f all like hair from our heads, and when our hearts f ail and our flesh no longer abides by our unreasonable drive—-when our rash, impolitic disregard for any human company other than that of f ellow shut-ins, each only too happy to forsake our humanity for the betterment of man——let us shoulder this absurd burden in riotous number and join our voices to shout N O N S E RV I A M ! to the grimy banality of mortal boredom.
W o rl d w i t h o u t e n d , y o u rs t ru l y, e t c. e t c.
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