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allegorical thinking

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the flesh is less important than the seed.

corkscrew thinking

He was a dishwasher on a submarine
in The War and the water
was never warm. When he reached

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to get a fork
the sub came aground and he
sliced his hand on a knife.
Without air or hope
they drank all the rum
but the tide changed
and the sub surfaced.
Heroic.