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"Would you, for example, withhold food from them, or make them wear disciplinary collars?"

"The only non-human credited with asking an existential question was a parrot named Alex, who asked 'what colour?' while looking in a mirror during a language experiment reported in 1983. His last words before his death in 2007 were, 'You be good. See you tomorrow. I love you.' " --@HaggardHawks

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"...observe here the zone: the Zodiac's
sigils circling. The Solstices,
the asterisked Equinoxes,
Cross-Quarter Days, are chronicled
wrought in roundlets, their rims locking
in clock-worklike caster-bearings,
gear-train meshes of that greatest Mill,
its wheels winding, in whirligigs
turning, grinding: Time's axletree
metes out the months. Each medal helmed
by a star-steerer, in each storied orb
manikins mimic the Months' Labours."

--Rahul Gupta in Long Poem Magazine, 2016

Aquapreneur, detailed oil painting, edward hopper.