Somnibus (A Rotary Oratory)

15. Mommy, I want to climb up every drainpipe in the world!

1. Spiders exposed to looped samples of dolphin voices spin spiral webs.

2. There is a universe in which I iron the same pair of pants over and over again forever.

3. He chose to live in the nineteenth century, and they could find no law against this.

4. One word is not enough to say that one word is enough.

5. A sculpture in frozen blood: a lamb full of white eggs and mirror.

6. You always get such good clouds over here – I guess it’s to compensate for the dinginess of the neighbourhood.

7. All of his meals had to be dried and pulverized to a fine powder so he could inhale them – strictly an æsthetic predilection arising from his condition.

8. Your poverty is God’s way of punishing you for not making enough money.

9. The elks is excellent, sir – they sizzle with perplexity.

10. I have such wonderful memories of our years together – if only I could remember them.

11. One needs one’s higher faculties to explain whatever it is one is doing down there on the floor.

12. Ectoplasm pouring out like egg white in zero gravity, poached in a sauna and served for mass.

13. I can’t stand confined spaces – unless they’re out in the open.

14. A fierce white jet flew low over the yard, and it made not a sound.

15. Neural rivulets streak and explode like rain in a wind tunnel.

16. The angels are pregnant with demons somersaulting in the womb.

17. Rush hour – guts on the turnstile.

18. The whores were the source of our sore horses’ poor course o’er the moors.

19. Coffee addicts with their percolating eyes, hands held out for change.

20. A human mating-ball rolls across the horizon: a retinal trick (her eyes on the risen sun).

21. The word lurks in straunge and wundrous ways.