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Called "The Friends
of Heraclitus."

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Your friend has
died, with whom you

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roamed the streets at all
hours talking philosophy.

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So today, you went
alone, stopping often

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to change places with
your imaginary companion,

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and argue back against yourself
on the subject of appearances--

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the world we see in our heads,
and the world we see daily--

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so difficult to tell apart when
grief and sorrow bow us over.

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You, too often, get
so carried away,

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you find yourself in
strange neighborhoods

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lost among unfriendly
folk, having

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to ask for directions, while on
the verge of a supreme insight,

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repeating your question to
an old woman or a child,

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both of whom may have
been deaf and dumb.

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What was that
fragment of Heraclitus

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that you were trying to remember
as you stepped in a butcher

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shop?

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Meantime, you yourself
were lost between someone's

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new black shoe left on the
sidewalk and the sudden terror

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and exhilaration at the
sight of a girl dressed up

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for a night of dancing,
speeding by on roller skates.

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