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Sebastian's Mirror
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Sebastians Mirror For clarity, for insight, for star-fire, for fear, for good, for given up, and for the middle ground (beneath the flying mind) she might have spent all hours at an open window. Near at hand, behind her thirty ideas of the world revealed, the visible was struck, a bevilled bargain with the planet Mercury. (Countlessness is kept without an eye on it.) Dear reader, other self, how much is lost when we are busy dreaming? Being isn't being DONE. And everything is one die shaken: that's the secret of the DNA. The iceways broke in brilliant staves and bracelets, and a whole God turned into a partial girl, so wet she burned her way into the dark. Behind her eyes, behind her back what do you see, as she admires the mirrors? Everything so long mistaken for oneself is there: a breath of h's, sleep of z's, the two that end in eros . . . 6? ...