&The Spoon,& a poem by Richard Jones

A Self-Referential Story A story by David Moser... This is the first sentence of this story. This is the second sentence. This is the title of this story, which is also found several times in the story itself. This sentence is questioning the intrinsic value of the first two sentences. This sentence is to inform you, in case you haven't already realized it, that this is a self-referential story, that is, a story containing sentences that refer to their own structure and function. This is the first sentence of a new paragraph in a self-referential story. This sentence describes Billy's mother's bulging eyes and protruding tongue and makes reference to the unpleasant choking and gagging noises she's making. Introduces, in this paragraph, the device of sentence fragments. This is actually the last sentence of the story but has been placed here by mistake. This is the first sentence in a new paragraph. This sentence can serve as either the beginning of the paragraph or end, depending on its placement. Bizarre.