V. Letter to the Editor

  'Master,' he said, 'the world is hanging

  out in empty space?'

  The master said, 'Oh no, my son,

  it has itself a base.'

  'What is it?' asked the student then.

  'A turtle holds our place.'

  'But master,' asked the student next,

  'What holds the turtle up?'

  'Another turtle holds it son.'

  He sipped tea from his cup.

  'But master,' asked the student thrice,

  'What holds that turtle's shell?'

  'My boy,

  it's turtles, turtles all the way down.'

  III. The Conversation

  Well...

  We all have our turtles,

  but some of us actually hate the sounds they make

  under the left rear tire.

  And so I chose instead of slicing pig fetuses

  to listen to Tolkien's Gandalf –

  mindset goes like this:

   

  I. Zine

  He who breaks a

  thing

  to find out what it

  is

  has left the path of wisdom.