Rush Hour

Shrood the Shoulds! and Musts! with Coulds
then/if [conditional] creatures crawl through
the [tick-tock] tangly web of the nihilo+ἀρχήness monster.
Studies show, studies, show studies, show
Cups of caffeine [and other sorts of fiendish -eines]
slows down Time. [or the personperception of it]
{but conciousness is what is any way worth of the while
waiting} room, stalling room, haystalls stacked
of people squeezing into Emptiness by filling
freeway cars with shaking fists and screaming
“shit!” when the guy in the tractor swings
his five-mile-an-hour-turn without a blinker.

5 Comments to “a quiet stream through a saneself”

  1. ariele

    ‘[tick-tock] tangly web’
    that’s awfully pretty.
    (keep sane keep sane
    keep self together/torn
    perfectly.)

  2. Brandt Appletree

    It's strange how you and Andrew Stephens write so similar. I'm often confused by who's who.

  3. Andrew Shepherd

    in this case, it's andrew shepherd.

    but i did add him as a facebook friend only moments ago.

    perhaps he will sometime read this
    and have something to add about the similarity
    of all the -tephens and -hepherds
    in the world.

  4. Brandt Appletree

    Or about the congruency of all the Andrew S's in the world.

  5. Andrew Shepherd

    we're saying the same thing.

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