Burn out on meaning's pyre So it goes, the modern instruction As there is nothing, of course I hear weak excuses: We had it wrong for so long There cannot be more than measure And numbers are guiltier than sin Uncreative drivel (on whose vomit I've feasted) Consider rather a multiplicity of multiplicities Abundance Atropos Incarnate cantations resounding with patience Wait for death and life, ye concept conceited Ideals with human form laugh at themselves For in a mirror, a word is penned residue A fence-posted inanimate medium To distract nouns from their lives as verbs