A Tale Inspired by the Cover of "The Occasional Tables" by Scott Bentley

Supra-Turtle Man is not one wit the typical super hero, (his heroine is Gertrude Stein), and, what's more, this turtle is very radically slow/methodical (which is the secrete of his supra/super-eternal-turtle power), and, he cannot fly, or even jump high. It is longevity and power-jaws of steel whereby dear-life-hangs-just-above-him. More than sufficiently shelled, he is, god bless, a l a n g u a g e poet, of sorts, though, like all magical heroes, he does indeed sport a crimson cape trimmed in reiterated golden/silver threaded squash blossoms.

This heroic Turtle gets more and more interesting as we delve into his historicity. His most outstanding and commendable strength is that he absolutely will not, cannot, snap; and, the particular ilk of snap of which I sing is not accomplished via his jaws, what is meant is that Turtle Man will not, does not, cannot, crumble, under even the greatest of psychophysiological stresses, which stress, in turtle-dimension, tends to be both extreme, continuous, and high-pressured. Supra-Turtle Man is the selfsame turtle upon which the ancients predicated the entire Earth, and, via that particular myth he has gained an influence, alike unto gravity per se, which rivals the power exhibited by his slow, steady, ineluctable methodic. His great gravitational influence/effluence is measured at ten solar masses, with his power-of-repulsion so efficiently exuded, that the Earth, actually, hovers just above the surface of his impenetrable shielding- shell, and, thereby, he maintains a peculiar supporting-position wherein the immense weight of Earth does not, cannot, in the least, tire his aged musculature. It is via the great effluent force of his gravitational influence whereby our blue-green Earth spins, hurls, has precession, and, literally, roils internally, in perpetuity, for his particular idiosyncratic Turtle-effluent-gravity constitutes the very originative-source-secret of Life, and, what's more, of Life Eternal.