2, April 2021
Operating under Hex 59



The Mouse Before Mickey
'A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.' -- Bill Burroughs
-- Our best scientists, she said echoing over the vast-vast, of course, as we know she’s dead now, the echo’s range has doubled, the vast has been squared. -- Our best, needs an anchor, a hook, something to hold to, hold to, hold. For some, like her, the vast-vast is too, too much. Today, I grabbed, was grabbed, out of the infinite horizon, a finite land appears, by these words, “Mice with Hallucination like behaviors.” Of course, it goes without, with outsaying, -- Our best scientists, Insaying,-- Those who use the method best, our best scientists like to torment mice, the Method must demand it. Demand, de-manned, not unmanned, only man, can be so crew L L. Wait where were we? The World horizon is immediately vast? Right, right: My first stuffed animal was a mouse, called Pelite, an immigrant name for genus Mus, according to our best, best? Right, right “reveal insight into... ... into psychotic illness” But later, how it happened back-then when we were raised by scientists, our emotions were manufactured by Disney, or so it seemed, for example from the article: “a rigorous approach to study how hallucinations,” see only our best can be rigorous, “published April 2 in the journal Science,” and serious, like not crying when my grandmother died and then I saw ‘Bambi’ and I wept like a child, I was only 6 after all, I didn’t understand the vast-vast, needed someone, someone, like our best, best to narrow it, bring it in, narrow it, to “objectively measure.” “This innovative approach allowed” the best of the best, or as I said it then -- The bestest, “to study the neural circuits underlying hallucinations” to cut up the vast-vast into offal and prime cuts, to vivisection “mental symptoms to the kind of scientific studies that have been so fruitful for diseases of other parts of the body,” To be fair, I should declare, -- A conflict of interest, I incorporate and embody the body in the vast-vast. Our best disagree stating unequivocally, “It’s so easy to accept the argument that psychosis is a fundamentally human thing and say, ‘Forget about mice’.” I wish I could, the laughter Pelite and I spoke, in the back, back also known in the parlance of the time as The Wayback, sonically ex-expanding, singing places to be, in the vast-vast way-wayback, never believing, while knowing it was absolutely true what Pelite said, it hadn’t been explained by the bestest sciency scientists, “Expecting to hear a certain word makes it more likely that people,” We must assume the ratty worn grey/black mouse who whispered -- Vast-vast in turn, waited expectantly for me to reply “report that they have heard it,” -- Our best ... “even when it wasn’t spoken.”
Con/Jur/d, 4/2/2021
The midden heap from which quotes were unearthed (No scientists or journalists were harmed in the making of this poem):
Mice with hallucination-like behaviors reveal insight into psychotic illness
Study in mice and people offers new approach to investigating mental illnesses
All kidding aside y’all, interesting research, although I do question the value of some of the underlying assumptions. ‘til ‘morrow