Jill, "as if," indeed. I like this. I like where it appears to come from.
It is a evocative of depth.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Patrick McManus <
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> some-else who has dialogues with machines
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> -----Original Message----- From: Jill Jones
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> Subject: A Rising Snap
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> A Rising
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> the sky’s getting close to Libra rising
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> it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with balance or beauty
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> is it a hustle, or a joke
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> some kind of maintenance of the mundane
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> another lie like any other lie
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> whatever refusal or dance is needed
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> as the wind suddenly turns into rain
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> then just as suddenly subsides
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> as necessity leads nowhere
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> as effects are simply effects rather than evidence
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> or a lead-in to an argument that might become reason
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> the fridge hums
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> it’s not mimicking the brief rain, it’s a machine
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> but for a moment it almost sounds like
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> a comrade, like a passing train
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> or tinnitus, blood, a pen writing across a page
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> any sound you could befriend
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> anything that sounds like some dialogue
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> you imagined when you imagined
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> walking out into the world
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> as if there were people
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> as if trees grew out of deliberate earth
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> and as if there was such a thing as singing
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