246. an instrument fit is quite the commitment

an instrument fit is quite the commitment
to death and destruction of all that had, lifted
the METER STICK PAUL, not thinking at all,
spurned the advances of enlightenment odd, he

rose, had (with) risen, had brandished, had bit the
METER PAUL STICK the measurers sitting
quietly chaffing their brown beans and lamb, with
ALL HAIL EXCELSIOR their heads from them whacked

the next few (the minutes) recorded are (isn’t),
delicacy, the families (skip it),
for whatever reason dave didn’t leave it
and set off all measurers (ACC.) to delete, a

low day on whole for the METER STICK COLL.,
it seems a possession, a negative hold —
finished, he fleed with martha, the meter,
and twelve thousand dollars he found in the freezer

the manhunt was long, detectors (with) dogs,
a long line of people who brushes in bottled,
but no-one could find the fugitive hiding
in a steamship (the cupboard of) crossing to ireland

the same steamship carried a pack of wild ferrets
to deal with the problem of cats that had flared with
bruce when from guinness he’d left them to finish
the mouses (and mostly) then started on fishes

fishes for good or evil are put
(were, by CREATOR OF MEASUREMENTS, MUD,
SIMPLE THINGS, TWEEZERS, ALL THE WORLD, TREES, AND
DUST-MITES AND DOORBELLS AND BERRIES AND BEES)

in the ocean (or lakes, in rivers, or tanks)
cats (for) is problems (not one, but a range of),
but when they invented the diving bell (dredging),
happily hooked all the fish they could (fresh of)

fresh are for keeping your fish in one piece,
at least so had thought the cats now up-breeded
to six hundred (twelve) thousand sixteen eleven
(that’s not quite a number, but add it up) swelling
(cont.)