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the goat solves differential equations

at the drop of a tin can

which he then eats.

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he is the brainchild

of a biologist turned computer scientist

who long ago read “think blue, count two.”

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the goat has a wireless print peripheral

and a tireless creativity which in two days

schematicized a mireless swamp,

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and he takes no pay save a pasture full

of semismart nanny goats with whom he can make

a small nation of brilliant, peripheralized kids.

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alas, he has learned

that a stupidly misguided government

wants to appropriate him, his wives, and his progeny.

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the government sees him and his

as weapons of conquest, ideal spies,

and manipulable dupes.

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alas for humanity, for the goat,

with some influence from “seventy years of decpop”

and galápagos and the day of the dolphin,

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has conceived and is schematicizing

a nifty, subversive means of reducing humans

to a single village of idiots.

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O it may say DO NOT DISTURB
Or warn of kicking to the curb

Perhaps you’ll get a Just Say No
Portending Death — but on you go

Enduring tides & time & tax
Expose the Daemon — then relax

The name of the post is “opened box.” The eponymous acrostic looks like “OPE NED BOX” but the multi-acrostic conventions employed on this blog allow for word-spread across columns. If it makes you feel better, we’ll name the box-opener Ned.

Curiosity has gotten humanity into and out of trouble since before we the human race can remember.

Finally, an analogy intended to pique curiosity: “Pandora’s Box” is to this page what Ray Bradbury’s “Fever Dream” is to Greg Bear’s “Blood Music.”