Desiderata

DESIDERATA

Whatever you do, whatever you do, try not to repeat repeat yourself. Get real. Make sure you have enough milk in the fridge (and don't buy that awful skimmed stuff.)

Avoid riding a tricycle in the morning. Respect the word. Always quote out of context, except that this is impossible. Never drink Pimms with reptiles or chemical engineers. Use a toothbrush, not a copy of "The Brothers Karamazov".

Lead us not (presumably) into textualization, and deliver us from the sign ...? For, "Metaphor is the logic of contamination and the contamination of logic." Need one say more?

Endeavour not to impose an order on the text. Order not your elders, betters and blubbers. Order a 37 with lychees. Speak clearly from the diaphragm. Spell diaphragm. Discuss. Pass briefly from adverb to conjunct, and the world will see you as you truly aren't. Write limericks till the mourning after.

But the work of mourning is always already (see Freud). At 12:15 p.m. in East Death. Do not buy invisible signatures of Salvador Dalí. Be happy.

Always look on the Sheffield (Brightside). Go to jail — go directly to jail, do not collect $200. Pass the buck. Give us a clue. Don't stand in the middle of motorways. Stop doing that! If you do that once more, I'll be cross.

Start doing this! If you don't do this now, I'll be Maltese. Think carefully before making up your mind. Too many desiderands stain the cloth.