Each Architectonic Aphorism

1. McGurk Effect

“Has the akratic taken the tastiness of the cookie into consideration or not?”

 

Could a philosophical,

Ideational effect,

Analogous to McGurk,

Exist, such that, when reading

Of one idea, another,

Dissonant, idea usurps

The head space staked by the first,

Using a more dominant

Modality to be heard?

A thought articulated

Through solemn modalities 

Might thus be read as nonsense

In the ineluctable 

Modality of absurd.

2. Carefree

Do with this text as you please.

I won’t invite perusal

And then demand the last word.

I won’t fake love of silence.

Let your hermeneutics be

Willful as a pregnant mule,

Inscrutable as living

Tombs, and equally carefree.

Claim these phrases mean

Whatever you yearn to mean,

But claim them as if

They held real authority.

This virus I’ve sneezed needs you

As vector. Breathe easily.

3. Their Language Is Silent, Their Gestures Motionless

I only resent the past

When I don’t like the recent

Or am particularly 

Dreading the ever-looming.

If I can find a sequence

That suggests some decision,

Mine or anyone’s

Had something to do with this,

I’m pissed. But most decisions

Fizzle, insignificant,

Sequence without consequence.

Zoroaster had a cow.

We have screwed up everything!

How is Zoroaster now?