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Some kind of epiphany

28/4/2021

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Precise
Imprecise 
Together
How they be

The efficient 
The clumsy 

Within the same unit

Ants are one body
A single entity 
Big as one hundred elephants 

Each ant follows a separate path
All is unpredictable 
After millennia
Less so

This massive body

Each part moving of its own
One will perish 
Thousands will continue 

Even flourish
Bloom
Many of these over rough terrain 

Crawl
Walk
Stumble 

A machine
Is the elephant
Of ants

Each part to another 
Mesh

A bowl of porridge 
Is the elephant 
Of ants

Each ingredient becomes 
Breakfast

Loose identity 
Losing self

But remaining
Salt
Oats
Plum?

A machine

A meal

Myself
An elephant
More like porridge than a car

Unless crashed into the ocean 
and rusting 
into a soup
Picture
Screenshot from the film Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs, directed by David Cronenberg
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