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Occidental Swing.

BY STEVEN WALING AND JOHN CALVERT

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 The stranger rode on a Mexican pinto into the town of Patriarchy,
 where previously there had been reports of sporadic post-individualism
 breaking out in the barrios. The sheriff, filled with logocentrism, 
 had rounded up the leaders in order of signification, 
 all except for Hosé, who had escaped by night to Slippage
 and even now was making free passage to the state of Textuality,

 where he would find himself once again in the arms of Miss Textuality. 
 An expert in the devious arts of acute patriarchy, 
 she could charm him with her secret wiles into post-individualism, 
 all liberally administered with copious amounts of logocentrism
 in a long tall glass, mixed with Coca-Cola and a dash of signification. 
 After several of these, there was always the tendency of slippage

 between this world and the next. Her real name was Ella. Slippage
 into something more comfortable—she knew how he liked the textuality
 of her curves—enabled her ably to rouse her lover's patriarchy,
 which she knew would inevitably lead to post-individualism
 in the big brass bed of her room in the Hotel Logocentrism. 
 Thus, they spent many long afternoons in a state of signification. 

 Meanwhile, the posse rode into town searching for Signification, 
 who, rumors said, was hiding under the guise of Thaddeus Slippage, 
 barber and undertaker. He was up to his eyes in textuality,
 but that had not prevented him from dealing in unlicensed patriarchy
 round the back of his premises. Hosé, still deep in post-individualism, 
 knowing full well he operated under the shadow of logocentrism, 

 heard the commotion, and would have fled but his latent logocentrism
 prevented him from joining in the hunt and ensured Signification
 would escape his fate. So it was he who succumbed to the slippage
 that he knew full well would probably end in textuality
 and a long stay in the caboose at Fort Patriarchy
 with no chance of a reprieve, unless found innocent of post-individualism,

 which wasn't on the cards. However, it was finally Ella's own post-individualism
 that led her to betray her man, on account of his logocentrism
 with another woman. This was the cowgirl at the Rio Signification
 who, so legend had it, had a particular habit of slippage
 into something less comfortable, whilst stroking a man's textuality, 
 so it was no surprise when our story ended in patriarchy

 and moral turpitude. Patriarchy rode away on a horse called Post-individualism
 and no one learned from the slippage that settled on the plain of Textuality
 whilst the stranger's own logocentrism was largely without signification. 

 

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