To Fold a Man into Nothing

 
 
You must press him like a flower between wax pages.
 
You must pin his arms out like a moth between wax pages.
 
Now look at him in Egyptian profile.
 
If he does not reach for you, something is wrong.
 
If something is wrong press him again, pin him again.
 
Does he reach for you now?
 
Place him next to the Rose and the Appendix
as dead metaphors.
 
 
 
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