someone has left
a perfect plastic replica
of the head of christopher lee
on the tawny leather divan
in my studio
the divan is long and so
the rather large oblong head
looks small sitting as if it were
a real head alive and lying down
but with its eyes closed
sleeping
and the divan is strange
like something you'd see in the 1970
british tv sci-fi series UFO
starring ayshea brough and ed bishop
and i guess by strange i mean
that its upholstery is tuck and roll
but resembles a soft honeycomb
created from hexagonal sections
which isn't ordinary
a diamond shape would be ordinary
and you know just as i was formulating
the strangeness of the divan
christopher lee began to speak
or rather mumble: that it's not necessarily
the hypothesis of 'a hundred different events'
all resulting from the same causal sequence
that we consider a chimera worth refuting
but rather that the possibilities that do arise
are in some way an illustration of an
apriori totalization
and then his language broke off
as a long yellow pencil
began to grow from his mouth
the long yellow pencil continued to grow
until crossed the room at nearly a perfect
45 degree angle until it touched the ceiling
and started to draw a line across the ceiling
until it came to the upper corner
where it met the wall and stopped
it was then that i really began to understand
that the contingency of laws
was wholly responsible
for the disorder of representations
and that disorder was perfect
and eternal
and that the whole time
i had been sitting and listening to
christopher lee speak
i hadn't noticed
that his skin was a pale
pea green color
and also
that i had no feet
but instead
steel orbs embedded in sockets
and lubricated
by what in most accounts
would have to be called
ink
and that thought like grass
is just something that grows
in the great green geology of fields or
the process of consciousness