Deaf ears, boys.

Not quite as deaf, it seems,

as those I hum & fury to

yesterday (as your summations

off-thread look to prove)

but DEAF nonetheless.

(listen: screams!) [NO]

Again.. no less than ever,

this past two decades,

here on this ol' rock,

backswimming into crude,

rude Firestone Jelly,

the final paragraph

of Cat’s Cradle so

pertinently applies.