Monday, August 30, 2021

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Cross’ Theory of Stars
Crossing Like Two Ships
                   (not a hypothesis)


     Do you have a favorite magazine?
     Do you consider yourself left-wing?
     High maintenance?

                               —John Ashbery

Maybe. Yeah. Well, without the wings.
And , , , no? Who cares, really? The
talkers won’t listen. The listeners
never get it. If there were that
rarest of exceptions, we’d be
nothing save star-crossed.
Plus name any measure
of distance. I mean,
were you actually
there, and you
actually were,
I’d then
ask for
a very
large
number.
Which, if put
together would
equal the only hard
reality that exists. I mean.
Hypothetically speaking. As if do.
Living it. Being it. Breathing it. Abhorring it. [Y A W N ! !]

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