I will read the octopus poem.
Tikopians believe the octopus is both
a mountain with tentacle streams and the sun with its rays,
so should not be eaten.
The mystery of metaphor is nearly lost to us,
as if only the illusion of metaphor
remains or the myth of metaphor or metaphor without ikon.
Rousseau writes, 'The first speech was all in poetry,
or poetry's reasoning was the first figure of speech.'
Palingenesis of word-- butter, bird, mind's forms,
reveals mind, ether, spirit unhindered."