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