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The Ego Lets Go of the Ego And One-Page Variations Anne Tardos, February-March 2007 It’s the ego that lets go of the ego. A leftist is usually right. Everyone is really a very fine fellow. I am an Acoustican. I come from the planet Acoustica Where we goham yeolnia ooh yeeanh Some varsity sensibingatee zenifer lida Shaka-ha-cha-ka! Different papilla pamina different zugoria. The standing the name the gesture The movement One cigale verisimilitude sentimentablement genial Dissertation vegetation permission A very fine fellow Eudora’s fedora in doric-mode Appearance rapidity (what I mean is that to dogs and birds we humans must appear as slow-moving as iguanas appear to us) 2 The egg lets go of the egg and becomes a bird The bird appeals to our sense of freedom and makes a cat salivate mentally Cats don’t salivate Dogs salivate Therefore dogs don’t salivate mentally but actually Birds don’t salivate I doubt they even salivate mentally The killer instinct brushes its teeth at night It flosses between its thoughts Thoughts that create sounds Sounds that become words Some words get along very well with others Can’t hold on to anything ever anyway Not to the bird or the stone in your hand you would never throw at a bird All of this is really happening. 3 The girl lets go of the girl and becomes an adult After a while, she will let go of herself and become something else It’s difficult to understand what But I know that all of this is really happening And that everyone is a very fine fellow You confirm and you build by repetition You invent a device that will repeat for you as needed You hand a fist-size stone to a child and watch her break into a smile The stone will remain calm and composed inside the little fist The stone dreams of the beach and of sandhood The edge of the water where the children play A play is by definition amusing A muse is by definition a scantily clad young female floating about 4 A penguin understands the meaning of life just as a seal ends it. Shilly-shally winter death Monkey colorectum Embrionic bazaar fracas comprehension overcast Cendrier Baudrilliard Upscale venison Vertical severance Digital mismatch Empanades truc machin-chose You chose to be the dingo A pecking order in Beijing to be to live to do to give to die A cat, a sweetheart, maybe a baby In this case, maybe a koala 5 The eagle lets go of the eagle Its need to control reality causes its insomnia Fear creates what is feared Conversation scuba diddle Verification jumble zig Pretty little short supply Glitter kindness gender gap Delicate gene pool Frisbee mutation Unexpected peppermint Razzmatazz Thought exists. Rigid necessity. 6. The writer lets go of intention and considers the alternatives She is thinking about writing about thinking Her imagination has gone for a walk, along with her intentions Arm in arm, the two walk around the block to get some exercise They stop at a feminist sex shop in Chicago and admire the sex toys Then they purchase a big bag full of pine-bark mini-nuggets at a garden supply store, for which they pay peanuts The writer tends to view all men as her feather A feather seems lighter than air How do you air a grievance? Is that anything like rhubarb? Rhubarbs are to be enjoyed in moderation because of their high oxalic acid content. Calcium oxalate has been associated with the formation of kidney-stones because the calcium combines with oxalate in the intestines and this reduces calcium's ability to be absorbed. Kidneys and stones will brake my bones But beans will never hurt meAnne Tardos New York, 2007 |