A contemporary poem about instruction from the unlikely, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The unlikely object gives no instruction. It simply survives in the wrong place: a shell on the office printer, a little sea refusing the fluorescent light. I take it outside. The street is unchanged. I am the part that has moved.
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