If You Know What a Bargain Is, You’ve Made It

Whatever prolonged
Environmental
Factors selected
For it, language works
Best to orchestrate

The vivisection
And reassembly
Of episodic
Long-term memory
Or, in other words,

Imagination.
Imagination,
Without the scalpels
And construction sets
Of names and syntax,

Is unthinkable.
Every magic thing
Humans have managed
Is unthinkable
Outside of language.

Mephistopheles
Is one name for name.
There’s a lot more world
Bodies experience,
But words own the soul.