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Unruffled Surface (poem)
Unruffled Surface
Where is he now, that American Cup two-times
champion? He won almost every major sailing
race. The marina was filled to the brim with onlookers
and the factory owners and inventors were greeted
not by us, but by a previously unknown politeness.
“We will be faced with aesthetically-pleasing materials,”
the mayor said, but there’s a level of mortification
it’s not proper to look on, and slowly, the onlookers
began to disperse.
We find order pleasing in a face, just as on the embankment;
for if something’s symmetrical it’s safe to swallow
Would you like an apple? It’s not the translation that’s inexact;
Those who brought the trees here named them on a whim.
Like it or not, a sportscar’s an autonomous reality,
even if sooner or later its


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