Here the acrostic is needed more for compositional unity than for meaning. The spoon, the jumpropers and the acrostic make a near-equilateral triangle that, like The Dude’s rug, “really ties the room together.” But the acrostic also helps create tension between specificity and transcendence, with an overlay of ambiguity. One way to read it is “Anu USS Gut Throne hers erst.”