After checking the cranial indices
one enters the cave of Plato
behind the key retinue

burnt ochre pedagogies disappear into
the curved stone matrices of bishops
bison, reindeer

butterfly beings

Stone Age Xanthippe remonstrates
the futurist runes deposited
by two disinterested integrity scientists:

Bob and Bing
endorse

the scab halitosis

closet hylozoists
elastoplast the girn

to heroic adolescents
in a Japanese manga