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The Origin of the Specious

Sortes says to Aial:
Your axioms

contradict each other
You do not know this

Let me show it to you
What is the Good

Describe
on two double-spaced pages

in twelve-point font
Use only nouns

or rather no words
at all, we’ve had enough of those

I cannot see,
Aial makes to say

but instead says: Baaa
                               Moo
                               Bow wow

—Eugene Ostashevsky

Eugene Ostashevsky is the author of Iterature, a forthcoming book of poems. He lives in Brooklyn.

Originally published in the April/May 2005 issue of Boston Review



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