You have made a silly remark, 
would you like to retract it?
Oh no – I’m afraid it’s too late, it has 
already spawned a family of its kind 
and generations of hapless followers,
unretractable, unredactable, it will sit 
right next to the most 
delicately contrived detail of the plot; 
that seemingly trivial moment or figure whose eternal significance only becomes clear when viewed- no, marvelled at from an inevitable climax created by its own exquisite salience, yet from this perspective, 
as written here, right now, 

indistinguishable 

from your little contribution.

Perhaps you might like to sit over there 
and think about what you’ve done
or just wait in blank denial 
as another monkey rolls his eyes 
and bangs out your latest entry