Tossing a Word Salad

Take two aspirin after reading 💊

They quote Lacan, Cicero, Hegel
an inherent characteristic of human subjectivity,
which carries contradiction within itself —
only an idiot persists in his error

I miss circa twenty percent
right over my head.
I think of Joyce
and Foster Wallace
with defiance,
irritation,
and not a little self-pity

I think of words
that sound like words
but likely aren’t:

oponic
sacrilific
indentary
subtilicate

I’ll sprinkle them into my “work”
to create a superscript
of neologismic meta-meaning

They will nod gleefully
and maybe welcome me
into their phrenic circles —
finally, a real writer,
gifted with gallant gab

Or maybe just
a puckish lexivagant,
dropping glimmering breadcrumbs
of plenquacious subtility