[Amit Majmudar]

The disagreement here is wonderful! Exactly how I would wish to start, Mr. Murphy: with something that gets people weighing in and posting and, hopefully, appreciating something they might not have otherwise.

I suppose I would point out one thing.... which is that there is an entire kind of writing or speech that is meant, precisely, to trigger a cascade in the listener's or reader's mind. Zen koans are like this. So are certain mantras. Or short poems by Paul Celan. Due to the vicissitudes of history and manuscript preservation, the fragments of Sappho often work this way as well, in practice.

There is "not much there" in a literal sense--only a few words, or in this case, none at all. But they serve as triggers. There are hundreds of thousands of other poems out there which contain many more words quite meaningfully sequenced--yet most would never set people contemplating the very nature of what they consider poetry, or contemplating so closely their form on the page--much less reacting so strongly as some of us have. Well done, Herr Morgenstern; well submitted, anonymous submitter!