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Round of applause

I stick my nose out into the universe
A basalt on the waters like a floating island
Of language where fear was a redoubt of
Don’t be fooled by last night
I hear equally what I don’t understand
Facts are me at the robots table
Where the warp and the woof
Go perpendicular then upside down
Seeking advice but getting
Only actionable information
Intelligence is too expensive
The savvy dear if you want a thing
First thing to do is already possess it
Assume a position, any position
Describing a nightmare
You shouldn’t be ashamed of having it
But only having been scared of the having
While the having was happened
And you were sleeping in a sulk
And people were fleeing for their lives
Does scarcity inspire you?
The organs you see
In the magic books of my childhood
Are human hands painted and carefully posed
Impersonating animals or an orchestra
With cymbals affixed to the thumb and ring finger
A tiny tuxedo has been daubed on
The paint must have been applied by the other hand
The book is called something like Handimals
But that’s not quite it
When the Internet can’t help me
I look at the dirt and the satellites surveil only hair
I keep thinking home is my refuge
Page 4500
Whole truth half rhyme
Rendering half of a circle
Why so serious about the other half
Spin your arms in the shoulder socket
Loosely, looser, almost there!
There is no partly upside down

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  1. It’s insane that I misread this line,”Facts are me at the robots table” as facts are the meat of robots. Maybe I just found my own poem- ha ha.

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