#320: De dialectica

my dialect is standard
goofy American English

my baseline is deracinated Texan

from which by pure exertions
i may rise to either
universal-historian-struck-blind-by-forest animals
or work myself up to
winter-rooftop-with-ecstasy-coming-out-of-my-ears

or sink
to the abysmal depths of
invisible-blasted-spirit-dwelling-in-waiting-room

but these are all only minor variants
of standard goofy American English