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Old 03-03-2004, 11:57 PM   #1
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Old 03-04-2004, 12:02 AM   #2
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The poem goes from the poet’s gibberish to
The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
Does it move to and fro or is it of both
At once? Is it a luminous flittering
Or the concentration of a cloudy day?

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Old 03-04-2004, 12:24 AM   #6
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Old 03-04-2004, 11:44 AM   #8
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The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy, rapture! I've got a brain!

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