FROM A BINARY.

What rot god-wrought uswards
let noman put us under.
          Two for one for all for once:
          our muskets loaded,
                     ears cocked.

Plato's lovers sat impossibly
deflated in the Waiting Room,
          lorn, torn & ripped-off.
          Abby wasn't taking any more
                     referrals.

Neither-nor at arbitration
dropped the n=affinity
          to be absorbed by
          both-and: more dis-
                     than un-like.

Think of a number, think of
another, any number of numbers;
          think of a body trying to be
          one with all that
                     orbiting inside.

Clandestine trades brazenly:
the erotics of this exchange
          are charged at one full
          interest point above
                     the central bank's.

The value of metonymic stock
is, it's true, a Prynne derivative,
          but that market is not
          yet exhausted so follow the
                     ticker-tape trail.

The trick in figuring speech's figures
is to mind the thing & the likened:
          simulacrum & originary,
          the discrete demands
                     of discretion.