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Weapons a Thought Could Wield
In the word of the mind, the mind of the word—murder, a simple premise, quick utility, pistol or cane, a wood or any metal, new money for old rope, a nail for the body, field for the coffin, a simple premise—inevitability, a shout and a gather, a rubbernecking, a knowing, a slew occupation, knife in a bread box, missiles in the hamper, bombs in the basement, a trap, the catch, a rumorer, inevitability, a simple premise—what becomes of a mind becomes of a body, zero thought, something hard, something harder, a knowing, time…