Eternal Return—limited edition

Let’s count these feelings[1] and if we find 3 degrees of background radiation I will alert my dentist and he can alert his secretary’s sister they have been sleeping together in the back of his Pontiac on Mulberry St. every Monday and Friday[2] unless cavities come first she will invariably show her distress to her seamstress[3] over suspicious glasses in Panara Bread[4] her jaw drops etc. and apparently she drives straight[5] over to the art-ist in residence residence it’s not her residence her boyfriend lives there and makes copper plates with quasi-apache prints on them[6] he wears a sombrero that is trimmed around the outside that makes it a basket he saunters[7] down the stairs watches Alley McBeal[8] and calls his drug dealer he tells him about the background radiation lurking on the event horizon of the universe[9] a chilly 3 degrees of Calvin and Hobbes above total that’s it no more zero the drug dealer is calm and informs the lounging art-ist of the activity of historical science and he explains the asymmetry of overdetermination[10] the art-ist flips over his sombrero and crams it full of squash and colorful gourds[11] to put in the foyer the drug dealer has a family and informs them of the eerie radiation over a dinner of braised spare-ribs carefully prepared by his wife[12] his son tried to calm down the wailing family with a poem about the foot of snow balancing on the porch railing but the daughter had grown tired of reading poem’s that looked like the topographical[13] view of a thinned forest they made her mouth feel salty[14] it reminded her of her ex-boyfriend[15] and she thought about the biggest bang and that emanating pulse of particles now waves now particles! And turned her back on it[16] cold and full of false positives and false negatives coughed up blank[17] only then could she tell her high school teacher about the radiation and he asked if she lived carefully under powerlines or near Russia[18] and it occurred to him that it could be cooked[19] if one snuck up behind it fast enough[20] but she said no you had to look at it like a series of wrong answers that were made right and they were waiting out in the field waiting waiting to be called in[21]