in that gloaming territory between

any more than brave Philoctetes of yore had needed that snakebite

a lambent static only the trained adman's sticky ear can trap

Schlamazl is the totally innocent hapless guy who gets spilled on

Schlemiel is the clumsy waiter who spills the scalding soup

Bagwanite's pirate squint

as hero, as Protagoras

a linguistic bewitchment, a leximancical fraud

to engage in general orgiastic Walpurgisrevel that would have just shot Faust's rocks

carefully targeted inducements and duressments