Lao Tsu (Lao Zi): The flower’s name is hooded, part doodle, part we’re not sure his swag is clean.

We’re in the hallway leading to stairs cut in two, fronted with don’t-know plaques, waking in hazy brightness — no clue how we got there.
Get used to it or go home to switch landmass.
For setting up a phrase targeting the other

if he can or if he wants,
what you said is partner to it. And how his confusion is proof to diffuse.