That troop of super-heroes who
Upon sensing any disturbance in the episteme
Convene and dispense their inscrutable wisdom

How bass is bass
What if my father had done something awful
Does number ever

Inflection or innuendo
Iago or Desdemona
Flagstaff or Phoenix

How does the worth of troubles compare to that of a hill of beans
Wouldn’t you just die without Mahler
Do you suppose this throng can’t keep it up all day long

What does that celebrity think about it
How can you tolerate such banality
Do fish cherish desires

How would one achieve apperception of the one life within us and abroad
How would one reconcile the competing narratives in Absalom, Absalom!
How would one articulate the emotional effect of Opus 132

Parsimony or impecuniousness
Sobriety or abstinence
Must may might or can

Are you ready for the catastrophe
Did you hear about the recent shameful event
When if ever

Is involvement the question
Or communication
Or passion

Wake or sleep
Vision or waking dream
Men or gods

What was the length of your uncle’s sentence
Have they perfected the thinking machine
When did the Constantinopolitans succumb

Why now
Why me
Why a duck

Have those wounds from Thermopylae healed yet
What was the temperature of your mother’s touch
Again with the unladen swallow

Have you ever seen the rain
Did they succeed in levitating the Pentagon
Who lost China

What’s blacker than black
What’s whiter than white
What’s fusciaer than fuscia

Why not use punctuation marks
What did he know and when did he know it
Do we not bleed

Human or person
Heredity or environment
Inherent or contingent

Remember the ladies
Would you ever want to be again with that retching monster
Are we not men

Do cherries desire to go fishing
Does your dog bite
Does the Pope shit in the woods

What’s Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba
Shall the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat blackberries
What light through yonder window breaks

That thing that slithering blob coming toward us what is it
What me worry
How would life be different without television commercials

Are the mondegreens in season yet
Do westerly winds promise drought or rain
Did the Indians lose to the Giants

What was the Hammurabian sanction
What was the Westfalian treaty
What was the Arian heresy

Girl in distress Jess
Got a fag Mag
Left on your own Tyrone

Does it matter that I’m
Does it matter that it’s
Does it matter that anything

How up is over
What if I never took any action
Do facts ever