Getting Back on the Horse Mouse

Stupidity consists in a desire to conclude.. Flaubert.

One does not stack.
It would be like
a mouse on the back
of a mouse
ona mouse's back.
Courses of mice,
layers of shivers
and whiskers,
a wobbling tower
mouse-wide.
with nothing more
than a mouse inside.
Kay Ryan. On the Difficulty of Drawing Oneself Up.

[Raymond Pettibon. No title (How is the author). 1992.]