[Give the Man a Name]

[Give the Man a Name]

“On fences and poles were the signs and posters of the age. Men with hard eyes and stiff lips; men with mustaches and military hats; women in dresses, sleeves rolled, forearms flexed. The age the man knew not.”

“On fences and poles were the signs and posters of the age. Men with hard eyes and stiff lips; men with mustaches and military hats; women in dresses, sleeves rolled, forearms flexed. The age the man knew not.”

“The sun isn’t chicken, it’s yellow.”— Dob Bylan

“If and only if the sun is yellow, it’s [not] chicken.” — Robert Zimmerman, PhD (Philosophy), aka The Unproving Prover

“If the sun is yellow, and is chicken a priori to its yellow-ness, and the reader, too, is yellow, and” — Robert Zimmerman, PhD’s celebrated non-proof, aka The Half-Whole Flagellation, or The Divine Strait of Messina

“Well, what is?” — Somebody Else

“For love” — R.M.N.

“For love” — В.В. Путин

“For, Love” — Drunk Uncle

“Love” — anon.

The man was. In a house he lived, a house in a city.

The city had been cut from a mold. First it was buildings. Now swarms resided there, within the limits. The city was.

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Publisher's Note:

This work is preserved in Merion West’s archive of articles and poems published from 2016 through early 2025. Explore the archive