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215 Hard of Hearing Her auditory canal is a torrential river Frantically seeking the anvil for the cochlear When numb passages wounded by hairless nerves Carry but some of the breezes waft with sound Described then is she as hard of hearing. The Cave Man It was simpler in Paleolithic times When words were unspoken or few— A squint of the eyes, A thumping of the chest, a wave of the hand And Java man, in animal dress Would go seek meat and try out roots, No need to read lips His quiescent unease and strange But unmistakable gestures were fraught With meaning, a grimace once or twice And you knew it had to do With life or death Not the rigmarole of inanities. ...

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