WHAT’S THE STORY - where’s your leverage?

Lift up the bonnet to inspect the single

inscrutable fused block, etched with sigils

of unknown derivation. Fetch NECRONOMICON.

Recite Black-Scholes to balance vital fluids;

get chariot of Pluto back on track

for lap of honour. Driver looks famished though.

Join us on winners’ podium for ritual

champagne supernova, end-of-history

commiserations. Hey - what bonehead summoned

GOAT WITH A THOUSAND YOUNG? Transmission ends

in sudden indecipherable static,

which may well be a mercy. Final frame

shows unfleshed mascot swiping victor’s crown.