If on Mars you come across a gasping flopping god it’s obvious to you that that god was created, i.e., that that god’s creator made it but to watch it gasp and flop. You may abbreviate in sympathy, in deepest sympathy, in sequence or intentionally mutually unbeknownst to you and your abbreviations. No man is a software engineer on his own continent. In the beginning not yet sacred all is apropos. As I traverse a simple closed curve counterclockwise the interior is always on the left. I’ll gaze in wonder only at that which I’ve gazed in wonder at ten times before. My audience the pope is inappropriately clothed wherewith I’m so self-confident my every gesture is perfection. Tolerate lest ye be tolerated. Bless their heart lest they bless your heart. Single out each kitchen sink except the one under your nose. In limelight I recite five lines. I call to order this. I call to order this first meeting of. I call to order this first meeting of the othered’s club. I sing of the inevitable in my privacy. Bring me the truth that I may salt some wounds. And, incidentally, I was blind. And, incidentally, now I see.
Heikki Huotari, on a hunger strike in opposition to the war in Vietnam, was court-martialled for refusing to eat. Since retiring from academia/mathematics he has published more than 400 poems in literary journals, including Pleiades, Spillway, The American Journal of Poetry, and Willow Springs, and in six chapbooks and six collections. He has won one book and two chapbook prizes. His Erdős number is two.