Laying Down the Groundwork

When I got up before anyone else / I took the heavy clams from the fridge / and put them in a bowl of cool water.

Laying Down the Groundwork

When I got up before anyone else
I took the heavy clams from the fridge
and put them in a bowl of cool water.

I wanted them to have one last hurrah
in their natural environment

which should tell you all about
my take on cruelty and death
and the general business of meaning-making.

Let me open the way I do naturally.

At lunchtime when Nico tried to shuck them
he found them impossibly closed
guarding tight against the tap water
which would explode their salt-water cells

What is the that in So much for that, then?
Actually, what is the so much?

By naturally I mean in digression and distraction
and when I said cruelty I meant utility—
But back to our scheduled program:

Am I being too much? Oh God
I would hate to be too much.

Though you might doubt this
considering the current unfolding data,
remember: doubt is not the absence of faith
as they say in some other, higher context

Anything with a hinge might as well be open.
That one I heard from an ex-burglar on reality TV.