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"From the Tower".

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"Insanity is not
a want of reason.

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It is reason's overgrowth,
a calculating kudzu.

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Explaining why, in
two-ton manifesti,

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thinkers sally forth with
testaments and pipe bombs.

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Heaven help us, spare us
all your meaningful designs.

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Shine down or shower forth,
but, for our earthling's sakes,

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ignore all prayers followed
by against, or for.

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Teach us to bear
life's senselessness,

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and our own insignificance,
let's call that sanity.

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The terrifying prospect isn't
some poor sucker in a la-z-boy,

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inclined to jokes,
remotes, or sweets.

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It is the busy hermeneut,
so serious he's sour, intent

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on making meaning of us all,
and bursting from the tower

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to the streets.

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