A contemporary poem about the object outlives its manual, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The manual outlived its object. Its diagrams remained precise: narrow here, press twice, do not improvise. I kept reading after the machine was gone. The paper became a small animal that could no longer be instructed.
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