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- POSTMODERN OBSERVATIONS
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- No, what you see
- Is not a strong man, flexing his muscles
- To lift
- A maple leaf.
- Fallen red in autumn.
- No, it is not a frosted glass of tepid water.
- It is not a dancing bear, or a bare dancer.
- It might be an old year dying its white hair
cerise,
- And wearing pants with an old fashioned
crease.
- But no, it is not.
- For a while you thought it a young man
- Setting himself on fire to protest the
paucity of fireflies
- In city parking lots, but is was not.
- No, it is not an income tax accountant
- Playing with paper dolls in the shopping
mall.
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- Why don't you and I cease this struggle
- To clarify our empirical observation,
- To discover what was uncovered before us.
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- Let whatever it was remain unknown,
- While you and I stretch with an arrow
- The strings of our bows, shoot at bubbles
- In the fountain water that flows
- From the marble Venus' nipples.
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