strike that, reverse it

 













“[i]n imagination”

then the real world modifies or neutralizes
this gaze as it were: it always goes outward,
but in imagination our gaze appears
between parentheses or quotation marks.
  

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  1. )( there is an I in imagination, a station at which we can stop to deodorize or document a kid, a tan, a man, a page; with or without cufflinks.

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  2. A headless circus master, a kangaroo, and a dwarf clown walk into a bar. . .

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    1. it's a good time to stay or to leave, depending.

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  3. When the gaze appears, there is a good sort of line break.

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