Invited To Leave The Office
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| 2 Husbands invited to leave the Office! |
(The Two Husbands get to leave the office; and the Two Wives will be doing something new too, at the same time, in the jungle)
NARRATOR
Two Husbands are invited by numbers
to leave the office (which is like home to them)
to go find their two wives.
Somehow, the numbers are
going to lift them.
They say they will!
And here they are!
Six and Seven and Eight
with them on the window-sill
at the edge of their office space.
‘What is it like to be falling with numbers?’
the Husbands wonder.
‘How can these numbers get us anywhere?’
The numbers have come back
and invited the Husbands
to leave their offices with them;
to go to the farther reaches
of our globe:
over to the Andes,
to the Ganges,
to the Willowbrook...
Over the mountains,
over the Pacific
to the Islands...
where their wives sit,
naked and yearning,
thinking, in the jungle, of such triangular
weaving patterns
and unloosening knots on rugs
that will help get them out of there, somehow
(perhaps, by magic transfixiation of the kind Native Chieftain.
And by learning the super teacher-training wisdom
of the persistent Witchdoctor; and applying it pointedly).
Look how the Native Chieftain
lolls his head.
Look how he is powerfully taken over
to slumber;
just like the Husbands are powerfully
taken over by the numbers -
off the studio ledge
to the farthest continents away;
over palm trees and coconuts
and deserts raw, forbidding
and rain forests
and peanuts
and pineapples -
until they are going to settle down
and land somewhere.
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| Day of clouds |
Reverse Plot Synthesis
(The Narrator is seriously thinking about plots now, as it seems that the Two Wives, with the Witchdoctor’s help, are planning to travel away from the jungle somehow on their own)
NARRATOR
Two reverse arrows are going to cross in the plot!
applied with two smart lives each,
in carriage and transport.
They are forced by different magic spending.
The arrows will cross and the protagonists will
land in different places.
One group - the Wives - will land back at home.
And the other - the Husbands - will possibly land
right where the first group left from:
at the jungle Chieftain’s village!
ONLOOKER
Reverse plots
are the antithesis of each other.
NARRATOR
Cross-making paths
charging over,
landing differently.
ONLOOKER
Soon to be disappointed - the Wives.
And lost - the Husbands.
NARRATOR
It is a sample of
reverse plot synthesis.
Here, let’s say, the numbers have taken
the Two Husbands across country
and sky
in order to land close to where
the Two Wives were.
But the Wives are gone,
using spider-wear warp stratagems,
on their magic toil cloth
taught to them
by cunning-mad Witchdoctor
to bypass or escape
the usual jungle drool
and badness that was encroaching
all around them
(yet, still nice was the sleeping Chieftain
unaware, in underwear, of their departure).
ONLOOKER
Wait, for a moment - the Wives aren’t gone, yet,
Can we examine what the Wives might use for propulsion
to leave the jungle village; in contrast to how the tall,
boxy numbers are capable of traveling from the city?
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| Witchdoctor and the 2 Wives |
(End of Chapter 31)
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