I just can’t buy the bi- words: bye, bye to
them and their double meanings: bi-monthly:
is that twice a month or every other month:
what is the matter with “every other”: say,
every other week, or fortnightly: what’s the
matter with fortnightly, except it sounds like
the Brits, and who can stand the Brits: I
cannot, to pause momentarily, bear the Brits:
the wind in their sails would not blow a gnat
off his podium: they are so flat they slip
under linoleum: they look, frankly, as if
they rarely see a washcloth: and on TV they
sound so gruff, just in saying, good morning,
how are you (if they say that), you think
they’re getting to gnaw each other: the Brits
is, by rumour, shits, I mean, twits: what,
bubble lips, do you mean by that, says razor
(no, blade) lips: bubbles and blades, bubbles
and blades: have you ever heard it said you
shouldn’t buy shoes in the morning: for
because with day’s stress your ankles swell
and what fits freely at dawn racks your
leggings by dusk: of course, if you go out
too late to get fit, the next morning your
sloppy shoes fall off your feet: this may be
an exaggeration, but maybe not: suppose you
are gouty or weak-hearted or hyperhydrated,
this exaggeration may be an understatement:
you may have to swath your ankles in the
morning and disbandage them at eve: rather
than shoe fit foot, in other words, make foot
fit shoe: when the bull elephant, his ears
heisted, takes out after a cow, his biswanger
so long and heavy it loops to the weeds, well,
then you think, does it really need to be that
long: does it need to reach in that far: now,
big surprise! when the cow sulls at last and
he flaps it up there, it’s in, and you think,
what a trip for the ole boy down that love
canal: true the trip is over before you can
pack a lunch, but, heck, how long should a
two-year celebration take, all that dense and rhythmical
commemoration:
BEFORE LONG