End With a Comma

End With a Comma

End with a comma, the end
The more decisive because
Inadvertent, broken off,

The implied
Clause, whatever
Qualification or

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End with a comma, the end
The more decisive because
Inadvertent, broken off,

The implied
Clause, whatever
Qualification or

Continuation had been
Intended, thus
Unappended, unsaid;

Call self-
Referentiality a
Trivial property, a mere

Byproduct of
Formalization, meaning nothing,
And admit it is not reflection that counts

But connection: The fact is
I could not get free, I could not get free
Of myself.

Dispense with images.
The mirror wants to be real.
You are missed.

Say more than I can say,

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