five business plans for the disillusioned fatalist:

1. invent a human teleport device. beam up Scotties delegate jobs to migrant workers. Live in Upper Peninsula, MI with mosquitoes pontoon boat whiskey 400 miles.

2. test biological resistance in scientific experiment sleeping with Welsh. live double life as money jar for worlds best ____?

3. gossamer takes flight, never returns another spring. Birds overused, trade aspirations for new metaphors.

4. open and name restaurant “All the Caveat You can Keep Down” and admit guests after reciting human extinction probability.

5. confound the most brilliant minds with invention that never fills up, never holds life, cries only when smashed and the broken and scattered glass reads: “are you? will you ever be?”