"Which Of These Scrambled Words"

which of these scrambled words is least like the others

burbles the airplane magazine game page

do you mean

which of the words is least like anything at all

which of them is variously floating

there

in mind space

black chemical ink on cellulose fiber with a light slick coating

so that the printed airline logo gleams

at 32,000 feet

while that particular word over there

and this one over here

actually those physical objects

of black and cellulose

are hurtling along with us and our steel tube

trying to attain our spot of desire

what would be these words’ desires I wonder

do they even have them

basically squiggles impressed on the page

no meaning at all

if you come from Cefalu

and are being accustomed

to different squiggles entirely

the meaning

whatever it is

seems to be a link

kind of like an electric arc

from our mind

to the squiggle

these two things are glued together spiritwise

and that spirit-glue

is also

hurtling

along with us

at one hundred kilometers per minute

to Miami International Airport