Ah! A quiz!

I can do this
Ask me who my parents are
Ask me why I a stranger helped out a stranger
Ask me anything

I’ll give you no dirty words
No arcane locutions
Or well I’ll put it in other words
If you like

Sure I’m a pleaser
Pleasing others pleases me
With the second and the third attempt
Silvery partial messenger

Unfixed
Unmoored
Unattached
Untroubled

Or well the troubles go
As quickly as they come
Porch delivery
On the circular drive

Dynamic stasis
Minutely vibrating stillness
A pilgrim’s staff and sandals
Waiting

A prophecy
Camouflaged amid the lists
Nestled among the nouns
Displayed like a purloined letter

Mood swings yes a few
Palsied with age
Or mewling and puking
Grand touring fiasco

Or a horny boy
Trying to maintain his cincture
Or straining
To burst the bonds

The negative telescope
The nearseer
Woodgrain
And woodflake

Every object
In the dream
Every vessel and implement
Seems a casement or threshold

A melody stretched and pressed
Fast-reverse faster-forward
Finely twisted
Frivolous filigree

A distortion
Or an accomplishment
A katydid trilling
On a long-stemmed rose

Elegant observance
The revelry of composure
The orgy of ceremony
The interwoven round

An insect song
To feather’d Mercury
A dancer windblown
In the velvet petals

The generative melody
The revelatory mask
Ask me anything
I am capable

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