The stars, those punctate bursts of phototaxis,Began to stutter in their celestial groove;The universe, a victim of its own axis,Refused, in its grand redundancy, to move.The king attempted a final, desperate gloss,A commentary on the void’s own margin;But meaning was an irredeemable loss,A vessel too heavy for the soul to barge in.He was the arch-priest of the pleonasm,The sultan of the tautological throne;Falling forever through the yawning chasmOf a language that had turned to petrified bone.His scream was a cluster of vowels and spit,With no consonant left to anchor it.
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