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This next poem is called
The Unificationiser.

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It's a word that I
think I invented.

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And it's a surrealistic
attempt to give

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my sense of what I think
is happening to people

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in a technological age.

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It's a lecture.

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The Unificationiser.

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First, you must
reorganize yourself.

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Later, the rest.

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It is not enough to
redistribute parts.

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How can you simplify,
say an elephant, merely

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by replacing tail with
trunk, since surely thinking

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and eating from
one end is crude?

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Too many memories still remain.

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No, you must start with
cells, basic units.

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Attachment fibers
must be cleansed.

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They are gummy and they ooze.

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Those specialized work, articles
are available to the layman

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if, and this is important,
he has the incentive.

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You need not, for
example, tolerate anger.

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Anger units can be cut
out, but preserve them

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by quick freezing.

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Someday, who knows, a use
for them may be found.

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Take pains not to
damage adjacent cells.

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I warn you, they are
easily destroyed.

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And sometimes they seem
to destroy themselves

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without being touched.

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You have made progress if next
morning, when you lay your egg,

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it is perfectly round.

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That is exciting.

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You will have found new
strength to work late hours,

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not to rely on the
company of friends,

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to break the obsession for
touching girls, and some,

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to commit yourself.

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After removing the hate
cell, invisible poisons

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must be drained out.

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A vacuum pump with a
tube attached to the ear

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is cheap and efficient.

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Test yourself then,
see if there is not

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more powder in your skin, more
white in your fingernails.

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And note, you are
less distracted

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by peripheral images, the dead
branch of a tree, a dog waiting

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for a stoplight, the
stain and the gloves

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you gave your mother.

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The egg, now smaller,
is no longer to be eaten

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and less hurt is
required to produce it.

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Next, vestigial organs
must be excised.

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There are more than you think.

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The balance you get
from toes, for example,

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causes a loss of caution.

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You do not need toes if
stable and self-contained.

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There is a cord that
begins in the neck

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and goes down to the rectum,
which after two neat snips

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can be pulled out easy
as reeling in a fish.

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This operation should be
done alone with mirrors.

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Notice then that the egg
has become still smaller,

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the shell more mushroomy.

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And before the time comes
to pack cotton in your nose,

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bits of wool socks
will do for it

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is less suffocating to
breathe through the mouth.

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You will detect an odor
emanating from the egg.

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The odor of families
rotting, stuffed

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in a perambulator, pushed by a
bearded nurse without a nose.

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That is no time to turn back.

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Let me repeat, that is
no time to turn back.

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