Instructions
For Topographical Head Sculpture
Place a hand on your hairless scalp,
clasp at the looseness of your own skin and then stretch it into
ridges.
(The head has already been shaved.)
Let loose the head-skin in hand.
Squeeze then release, again and again.
You're furrowing yourself for good.
Squeeze then release. Repeat for four
hundred minutes.
Purchase a brand new wig. Hide the new
head mountains you just stretched and, in private, caress them every
hour.
A larger man than any you know, working
his head as described, made the earth from doing this.
Every planet was first worked from
men's heads and hands, then detached, plucked up, placed neatly
inside the heavenly firmament.
Your mountained head may become one
also, a planet among others, mooned and starred and even inhabited.
Ben Segal