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**A Most Unreason’d Cata-logick of Infants & Cherry’d Millipedes**
*in six-and-a-smidge Acts, writ in Shakespherious nonsense about*
**THE SPYKES “Infant Catalogins” lathe-cut sculpture 7”**
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**ACT I – The Lathe Spins Backward in the Cradle of Yawn**
*Enter WIND-BEARD and MILDEW-TONGUE, two Gentlebugs.*
**WIND-BEARD:**
What beastie’s birth is catalog’d thus, in groove and glue and infant dust?
**MILDEW-TONGUE:**
A SPYKES, methinks! A lathe-cut thing!
’Tis round, yet cries! A vinylling!
Its sculpture form be womb-like, bent—
A cradle spun, but backward sent.
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**ACT II – A Noseful of Cherry’d Curse**
**MILLIE the PEDDLE:**
I crept 'neath boards in Loo’s e’en South,
Two inches long, no teeth nor mouth—
Yet when they squeezed me, I did wail
A scent! Like cherries, dead and pale.
**GRANNY JAWNS:**
Touch not the sweet! For poison’s bloom
May ride upon that candied fume.
Thy fingers numb, thy soul turned brown,
Thy thoughts shall click in circling frown.
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**ACT III – Infant Spins Upon the Platter Moon**
**THE RECORD ITSELF SPEAKS:**
O whimpering wheel! I crack and cry!
Cut not thy tongue upon my sigh.
My infant tracks are coded steep,
A sleep-song sung to beasts that creep.
**FOOTNOTE:** *(Delivered by a cloaked Flea):*
> “The sculpture suckles truth from wax,
> With needle-nurse and grooveful tracks.”
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**ACT IV – Query Most Vague**
**YOUNG STRANGER (aside):**
What millipedal shape, but browner grown,
Did smell of cherries and walk alone?
I ask, not to alarm nor bait—
But grown-ups said to leave its fate.
**OLD FLANNEL:**
Thou asketh right! A subtle breed,
Who weeps a scent no nose should need.
The poison? Mayhap. The truth? Who knows.
But child, wash hands ‘ere thy nose goes.
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**ACT V – The Infant Catalog’d in Foolish Glory**
**JESTER PRONGE:**
O SPYKES! Thou madly latheful lord!
Thy 7-inch babe hath bit the cord.
Its sculpture sings! Its catalog stings!
It grooves the dreams of crawling things.
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**ACT VI – Exeunt All Into a Spiral**
**ALL CREATURES:**
Let cherry’d fumes be memory lost,
Let infants wail in wax emboss’d!
A lathe, a spin, a sculpted plea—
The nonsense births eternity.
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*FINIS*
*(Filed under "Infant Audio-Cryptids & Aromatic Arthropods, Class Z")*
Smaller, browner millipedes in south Louisiana with cherry smell might be **Apheloria or similar Polydesmida**.
The cherry odor comes from **cyanide compounds** — best not touched.
Let them abrade the earth
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