flipping an egg around the edges
of a magical pan (one that doesn’t stick)
and my brain floats to trepanation,
and how my skull would be bored into
by hand, with cranial drill squeaking
closer toward my brain as inquisitors
chatter over the pan and ask themselves
(while their sycophant continues to bore me)
“how does the egg not stick to the pan?”
and of course this knowledge is inside my head.