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The novel hurled to the ground breaks into verse

and achieves a perfect synthesis

of Bible and phonebook,

a chance synthesis

recalling the work of X

in its use of cherry and adverb.

A branch of adverb negatively rendered

is characteristic of a period

in which phonebooks possess all the qualities of epics

plus or minus three.

X is of that generation that gloried in synthesis

privately performed,

in charity syntheses held for cherry trees.

I have chopped down the truth conditions for cherry trees

with a chance synthesis,

with a phonebook in one hand

and a Bible in the other

and the other.