so begins a disquisition assessing the sliding scale of normality or
before any sentence which I say aloud

I mentally echo its meaning (whatever that may be) to myself in a kind of aside
and so wield a fullsize nutcracker

i.e. apply to my head a calendrical apostasy
crack open the skull

describe the grey muck
all the while conversant with that muck's elasticity

as a linguistic tension between intent
and an inevitable ambiguity