VLVL2 (3) A Finesi Romance #1

[Terrance]

> Gee, thanks. We fumbling amateurs need all the encouragement we can get.


But in the fictional disparities among genre-worlds unfurling
Farther out where Toon City's edges are curling
soap-opera, cop-show, sitcom, talkies more or less assailable to realist
verisimilitude
into Carnival Night 
Swings of freedom!  Jugglers of Zeal! Fumbling Amateurs!
Where the shooting-gallery's targets-- petrified Pynchonoids-- 
squeak and caw when hit by a marksman, 
He is staggering on, 
looking back now, 
over his wounded waxwing, 
at Lady With the Lamp, 
whistling an Ode to a Nightingale.