in elevating the emotional arc.

Each character is assigned a role

that satisfies a concievable dole

of some person place or thing we want

the forbidden fruit the heavens flaunt.

And puzzles serve to cut away

the excess of a dreary day;

they give us no sense of mastery

not drawing upon our fantasies.

Instead they rot our supreme neurological —

setting stage for an ascending aristocratical —

force.