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Let not the masses
speak
in the third-person
inscribed
he mouthed the words
and returned to his tent
torn between
the revelation
and good old-fashioned apathy

And
(in what would later
be celebrated
as the last great outburst of
eurocentrism)
quoted aloud to the canvas
O God!
I ccould be bounded in a nutshell
and count myself a king
of infinite space
and wondered about the punctuation
and wondered why the radio
was white noise
when you can get that for free