At one certain point,
everyone living
has precisely
the same amount of past
as future.
For this moment only,
they no longer need to walk,
to count, to listen;
there is nowhere to go—
they are home.
*
Quick question—
how many descriptors
does it take
to denote
an individual?
How many individual birds
make a pair?
and how many pairs make
a difference?
*
Behind each eyelid,
there's a small, tidy room
being held
in reserve
for "you."
*
The beginning of love
is sympathy for another,
but the end of love
is pity.
How can this be?
The holy trinity was made
when two lovers
walked together on the shore
and were followed
by the gaze
of a third-
person narrator.
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The structure of sentences
like those above
has conditioned each of us
to value most that
which we expect
to see next.
In just the same way,
reverberation teaches
that every word
which comes to us
has already been said
at least once.
