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There have to be copies
Of ideas,
Documents from Xerox type machines,
Atoms,
And molecules,
There have to be copies

And copy machines

But then...the clicking and popping,
Into place, these pieces and copies

This one next to that
It looks interesting and we enjoy it for a time

Whether it be a picture or pictures or a string of words or amino acids
Placed together

Or, to say it in another way, simply slipping your hand into the apparently correct pocket
It feels nice

Chirality, sometimes symmetry, but limited possibilities

So, copies can be dull after a while

They are necessary for building
And so they built

But now they are dull

So you have these groups and factions

This Periodic Table of Drab and Sad Dogmas

Where there is, of course, often humor in the current wretchedness of this standard table

But the status quo is losing its color and it has been lost and it is simply no longer entertaining

FoxNews has its nonsense, the Left has theirs

Some white tower spewing out something about, say, an irreconcilable disjunction between psychoanalysis and neuroscience, has theirs

And some preacher saying the oldest of things

But meaningful talk has always been about synthesis

It should be known, emergence comes through stitching, and stitching in new ways

The advent of the sewing machine was a metaphor

Suggesting perhaps we have the resources to do it faster
And also, that it makes little sense to stitch these enormous new pieces of fabric with that old shit

Who is on the look out for this novel taxon? Or taxa. That must be coming

They are the interpreters, if not the authors

They are, in fact, both thread and machine, and somehow also the hands, and at this point perhaps less surprisingly, the body to which the hands are attached

The mixer of metaphors

But are now, one
All the same, they are one

And so the copy is indeed now the creator and tailor and author, and must set about working to populate this new space with clothes and quilts and books and other metaphorical objects, suited for such a place in order to build what will hopefully be left behind