COLLIDE (origin of art, science, humor)

   The Great American Sermon  
        
   Even the best fall down some
   times.  Even the wrong words
   seem to rhyme.

   How to Write Like an Old Man
      When You're Not One.
   (MFA workshop description
            205 Jensen )

You can have the great American novel.
Write it if you can. G.A.S. is my aspiration.
Light it when it looks like the darkness.
 
“I would rise so high,” writes  Wm Gass
(In the Heart of the Heart of the Country)
 “when I shit, some of it hits every body.”
 
Can’t be said except in novels, poems, maybe
movies jokingly,trippingly off the tongue.
 
The play’s the thing; know what I mean?  
            What I’m saying?  
 
“Neither logic nor sermons convince,”  
 
But who pays attention? .Listen!  Let me
make one thing perfectly clear: it’s a joke.
                 Get it? .
    
         Need we argue?
 
Epimenides, Procrustes, Narcissus & Diogenes
walk into a bar. Sphinx, bulks & hulks, looking
for action, asks what’s up— walking  on  all
fours, twos, & threes?
 
Hanging by a thread? Dangling over the pit
of hello? Precarious spinners in the hands of
angry mobs, maddening crowds.
 
As if ! 
Something like!
Improve my terms.
Represent.