species, species one and all
who is smartest of them all-
domestic animals invented, breeds
caged to feed, to work, to please
...
the cat she sits,
a stoic,
purrs and meows
as fits her mood,
...
For all to see
Paint brush of inner feeling
Colors the face
With crimson signs
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for every cause an effect
what created the cause, another effect,
sounds too circular to accept,
doesn't explain, the why
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the other me slithers out of
peep holes, cracks and crannies
slides and spreads, rolls and multiplies
filling the here and vast beyond
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Computer, compuer
Whose Master or Slave would you be
Computer computer programmed by me
No slave will you be nor master of me
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I had been reading the
literary supplement
if I were an anthropologist or social apologist
I'd find it possible to assimilate
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a visit to the hospital ward,
at twilight time before the Sabbath
depressing and necessary,
void and empty,
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she tells me what to do
even while I am
or plan to
or think I am
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