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Spring 1999 • Vol. XXI No. 2 • Poetry |

What Fine Kindling the Homeless Make

I know the importance of replication but intend no action
in this regard. For instance Descartes removed the eye
of an ox and scraped and lookd through the back
of this eye and realized the world was upside down.

Doing this once is enough because the body knows
intuitively the world is upside down. The body knows
having the eye removed is not volitional in the sense
I’ll have fries with that is, you can put ketchup on fries

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