A butter substitute?


This line may refer back to the previous stanza–asking whiter the substitutes (a staple, a champagne flute) are actually better alternatives

It also refers to mundane butter subs like I Can’t Believe it’s not Butter!

Lerner expands these gestures, that ask the reader to imply connections between disconnected phrases, in his third book Mean Free Path, c.f.:

I organized, distributed fliers like
This one

goes out to all
My people were
Possible worlds, encouraging

from “Doppler Elegies”
