a total,

w/in itself stranded,

news of the universe:

a novel assimilating strategies of narrative,

proving their function, calling into question,

unfolding them.

Like cards, strategies are shuffled

in the deck of time,

played out w/in the lapse of a frame.


prose suspected of a computer's composing,

but a computer w/ rudimentary narrative intelligence,

signs riveted or locked into position like keys,

traveling to that inevitable precision

of de-synapsed logic capable of entering attention

unannounced and rivaling local intelligences

to inclusion in all-out format: end of story

in mind of reader.