rejected applications to the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung: DOC. NO. 02S593H47

a number of false starts. one prods the blackbox: from the blister of
morning, light sluices, pattern-potential: keep in warmth, radio-murmur/

hands steady enough to inhabit another change in state. one fiddles with
the quotidian, ways of making coffee, a grapefruit. by another name

the banal. just so: i a value without your bounded set, beyond reach,
imported absorbed uncanny but i cannot see from the vantage of another

epicycle, within your system deferent, perturbed--our mouths moving
together identical in form only. i have never been skilled in likeness.

i have your words, but you singing them incant me a double, mirror-strange
& assumptive. i catch myself in almagest, lingering in some outer sphere.