The World

        What are we doing in the world?        In the world,where the children        are playing world.        Where they drivetheir little toy cars        and trucks upand down         the steep imaginary         roadsof the mind—        maneuvering around        the oncoming traffic that barrels         down around endless hairpin         turns—What are we doing         in the world? Where our neighbor’s         girls operate on their dolls—        Having laid them outin...

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