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The Horizon That Wasn't.

our hands free & our gaze far
   Africa is our home
savannah where the trees thinned
   & some of us learned to run
high up in a glass cage
   words fill the air
that first spoke from spread-out bands
   in Africa, in Africa

" 'Meaning yes, but message no,' Ashbery once said. 'There is no message, nothing I want to tell the world particularly except what I am thinking when I am writing'."

In my family there were cats raised from kittenhood by humans, & stray cats that adopted us; the former had more distinct personalities, & i came to understand without thinking about it too much that having a personality is an adaptation to being among humans, & only that.

"...Kant with his ‘Copernican act’, which consisted in the murder of the living, active I and the dissection of its corpse into two parts—with the aim of later assembling a whole body from the two dead halves."