To an enormous extent, in a high degree, in such a degree as cannot well be expressed, a great but imprecise quantity, an immense deal, relies for support or is conditioned or contingent on an indefinite (single, but unspecified) light vehicle with two handles and one wheel, rolled by an individual for the purpose of [...]
See opaque vessel. Open hatch. Remove paper. Read clearly written instructions. Cover desktop with skin. Cut cardboard pattern to contour and outline, using shears. Apply adhesive to desktop. Press and stretch skin to remove wrinkles and prevent buckling as adhesive dries. Trim excess, using knife. Apply goldleaf or other decorative design, using heated die or [...]
Somewhere along the way / I ate something but never passed it, / and whatever it was, it must have been / growing inside me, requesting meat / when I would have preferred mixed greens, / garbanzo beans, spring water and lime—
The third thing is the darkness. Impermeable. Mute. You are weightless. Groundless. Maybe you are moving but it is impossible to tell. There is only the darkness and the idea of you. The second thing is light. Blank. Unremitting. You are paralyzed, eyes tearing. You might be on fire but it is impossible to tell. [...]
Which is not a drawing but a shape. The shape is empty. The emptiness draws the boy’s eyebrows downward, draws his lips downward. His frown is part of this drawing, which is outside the box. The box is labeled “#2.” The boy is unnamed. He exists merely to draw our attention to the rectangular shape. [...]