proselytize--
 to turn into edible but unfulfilling form--
  see also proselyte shtick and soft proselyte--
    not to be confused with pretzel-lysine
    used to kill cramps 
    induced by mental
    gymnastic overexertion--
 fuck--
  i am not a man of depth
  and that is not irony--
    were that i were
    the shadows of a tree
    fallen upon a tree--
 better honest confusion 
 born of intellect and ignorance
 than the false innocence 
 wormed in the clarity of a lie--
  fuck--
    i am half-words and phrases
    faded, frayed and mislaid--
   beauty is legion and truth diamond burning away
   as it flaring scathes into the roaring fusion
   of a sun, any sun, this one--
     or so i say--
    i do not love the stars today.