stimuli's false front

the false front of stimuli

as the life of attention-grabbing,

as the surge of images demanding names

with the lip-service of causation forming

and the demand for the account,

and then the defense for what is noticed

as if a storyboard rolls into place,

as the mind whispers are inwardly spoken,

as the worth of the world in so many words.

stimuli, signaled out as labeling goes

for that which comes to represent

the otherwise unknown.

this, the distortion of the means,

to represent the whole

without mechanics or motive made clear.

a naming is such an abuse of its function

for us to recruit one's eyes to see

or one's skills to sense

the most formidable of presentation's scene.

it is the soup of sight without flavor's taste.

the smell of an overwhelm without delicacy's whisper.

the touch of surface without innards ever exposed.

enough is already

as stimuli is in the beholder's sense of things.

otherwise, what is the knock 

at the door of awareness about? . . .