Names are important. Ask the stars who, to protect
their kids from mediocrity, call them Moxie
Crimefighter, Audio Science, Dweezil, Hieronymus Bug.
Ask the former Daniel Michael Miller, now legally
The Dan Miller Experience. (“Call me The.”)
Ask the man who changed his name (who knows
from what?) to Snaphappy Fishsuit Mokiligon:
a rockin’, sockin’, finger-poppin’ joy-buzzer of a guy
who later changed Snaphappy etc. to Variable,
reminding us that life is flux; consistency,
the hobgoblin of mini-minds. That message, too,
having outlived its time, Variable asked, in 2010,
to become Fuck Censorship—a request akin
to the Walmsleys’ sullen son Windigo’s suggestion
that their summer cabin, “Grizzly’s Den,” be renamed
Pig’s Wallow, Turd Corner, or Soul Cyanide,
both requests being—like Windigo’s prayers
for a new job and better family, another chance
for real, limb-ripping grizzlies to roam the ever-
more-peopled, less-wooded hills—denied.