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And then a new one that will
also be in the new book--

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"Gnat On My Paper."

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"He has two antennae.

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They search back and forth,
left and right, up and down.

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He has four feet.

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He's exploring what I write now.

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This is a living being.

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Is this a living poem?

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His life is a
quarter of an inch.

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I could crack him
any moment now.

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Now I see he has two more feet,
almost too delicate to examine.

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He is still sitting on this
paper, an inch away from An.

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Does he know who I am?

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Does he know the
importance of man?

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He does not know or sense me,
his antennae are still sensing.

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I wonder if he knows
it is June, the world

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in its sensual height.

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How absurd to think that
he never thought of Plato.

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He is satisfied to
sit on this paper.

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For some reason, he
has not flown away.

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Small creature,
gnat on my paper,

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too slight to be
given a thought.

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I salute you as the evanescent.

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I play with you in my depth.

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What, still there?

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Still evanescent?

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You are my truth that vanishes.

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Now I put down this paper.

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He has flown into the infinite.

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He could not say it."

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