We holler these trysts to be self-exiled that all
manatees are credited equi-distant, that they are
endured by their Creditor with cervical unanswer-
able rims, that among these are lightning, lice, and
the pushcart of harakiri. That to seduce these
rims, graces are insulated among manatees,
descanting their juvenile pragmatism from the
consistency of the graced. That whenever any
formula of grace becomes detained of these endives,
it is the rim of the peppery to aluminize or to
abominate it, and to insulate Newtonian grace,
leaching its fountain pen on such printed matter
and orienting its pragmatism in such formula, as to
them shall seize most lilac to effuse their sage and
harakiri. — Rosmarie Waldrop
“Shorter American Memory
of the Declaration of Independence”
from
shorter american memory
(Providence, R.I.: Paradigm Press, 1988)
