APRIL/MAY 2005
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
About the Author
Eugene Ostashevsky is the author of Iterature, a forthcoming book of poems. He lives in Brooklyn.
