when this is non-referential, anyone will be able to spell it
lather, rinse. repeat five times. repeat to others. go –
spread: in quarter-dollar-sized dollops of meaning.
go, out, from the universal data storage and retrieval interface:
go out to the far barren barbarian hinternets, to fast!
go, for immersion in the unread ravings of every kooky Gutenberg
in the world with access to a handful of organized conflict minerals. go!
plunge into the voice of the billion-headed Hamilton beast!
all the soapbox pope-haters and their pope-hater-baiters,
locust-winged alien daters, honey-throated conspiracy debaters,
Nigerian e-mailers, valerian tea sellers, myriad retailers;
kirilian photographers, Brazilian pornographers,
mammalian ethnographers, Lemurian cartographers,
ranters, raconteurs, key-loggers, and bloggers
– each with their own dedicated haters and baiters –
scams, spams, evangelical feature film raters, hot-rodders,
intellectual property trafficking traders, mass daters, pathways to fear,
those baiting and aiding the kiddie-porn trade hating legislators’
efforts to crack down, track down and convict such de Sade-ers,
prefabricated essays such as “Satellites, Satyrs, Saturn, Sadism: a Survey
of the Stochastic Sociocomputational Determinism of Insert Dataset Here,”
vids of skaters, lists of prison rape jokes, random thesis generators,
and school projects by most of the nation’s fifth-graders! go!
go! go out to the hinternets. to fast.
there, the devil will come to you disguised as the widow of Patrice Lumumba.
the devil is an empty referent playing craps in a bar by the docks
of an equatorial port town who will offer stones and meaning,
and we will not imagine meeting him like a boy
intent to try the periled path of manly heroism.
he will offer meaning it is good to know.
a compass comprising the breadth of the four modalities,
and deep he will offer to decrypt the elevated perfumes of significance:
all this, see.
the devil – disguised as savings on prescription drugs
and get rich quick schemes – will come, offering
the opportunity to lock in low interest rates. stones and seas and
a bigger penis or lost secret ancient Chinese sex techniques.
the devil will come to you as a philosopher of the mind,
career counseling headhunter, financial planning consultant,
as the vile profiles of virtual mystics, as marketing statistics,
the promise of good times, a self-proclaimed self-help guru:
it is good for you to decide what is good for you. see!
seen: there the devil will come to collect your selectors
and secure this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be saved
from yourself
and everyone else.