ether or e-ther 
  
                        
  
                        this much is clear
  
there’s always an otherworld out there
  
a phlogiston just itchin’ for exploitation
  
almost incendiary in its nervous tensions
  
a dormant slow-
  
                                    time explosion
  
all it takes
  
is a nerve to fire it
  
                                    and then
  
 
  
in the usual double unfolding
  
barter economies enfold
  
secure trans-actions
  
a sublimated aggression implicit in engagement
  
 
  
each community formulates its own conventions
  
better not try to advertise your variable verticals
  
in this here forum. them’s fine things, words, to so
  
debase as to formulate your own face in this multi-
  
 
  
faceted mirror
  
                        it’s the infinite rhetorical gesture
  
the proffering of that which I have. which will be.
  
            
  
lost in the gesture.