species, species one and all
who is smartest of them all-
domestic animals invented, breeds
caged to feed, to work, to please
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the cat she sits,
a stoic,
purrs and meows
as fits her mood,
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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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to market to market a bag full of scruples,
hear me one and all, they are worth their weight in gold
to ward off the evil eye and simple pie man,
come one, come all, have a peek and seek no more
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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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