Brains!

Dream Of The Language Wheel
By Tom Robbins

Ancient elf bones
stewing in the rain,
Angels the size of fruitflies
circling a buddha turd,
Star maps drawn in lipstick
on the mud of walls of opium towers.

Images like those,
scenes sucha as these-

The red midgets of hell
challenge Suzy’s friends
to a snowball fight
Or
In the cave behind the waterfall
the ant king licks the clitoris
of the sleeping anthropologist.-

existing only on paper
are yet more important
than flags, bibles, gold,
guns and reputations.
So
throw off your armor of acronyms,
your layers of numerical padding
and
come bathe with me,
come slide beside me naked
into the world’s steamy honeycomb
of words.

(From Wild Ducks Flying Backwards The Short Writing of Tom Robbins, published in 2005 by Bantam Books)