Another "Just So Story"

Left abandoned on the high
veldt, I notice how parts of
speech often do not hang to-
gether. Rather run their own
races — all the fullstops coal-
esced in a ball by a waterhole, 
the commas top to tail in a 
daisy chain that winds through
the grass & on up to the distant 
hills. As for the conditional 
clauses — well. . . Sometimes 
words might stop to talk to 
me, but because there is no co-
herence to their delivery they 
are left lying on the ground 
like scat, unheeded until some-
one like Rudyard Kipling sees
them & theorizes how leopards
might have come by their spots.