Poems Eat Essays

They said culture eats strategy
(for breakfast and other meals)
and the reasonable suffered from
unseasonable untreatable colds.

The virus is a language game,
not the moves or the scores.

Papyrus is a history name
and trees love vellum the
way cows are ambivalent
about almonds.

Have a job or freedom?
Have a heart or hands?

Half a mind or a whole
mint? Say intention and
mean means and you're
eighty percent of the way
to the wager Pascal made
on the vagaries of after
life.