Classic Poem

Agreed. We're born knowing (although
not yet knowing we know)
and all learning must touch—
indeed, must elicit—
what we knew already; the rest
just slips by!. . . . A credit,
unique in each case,
of anterior axioms—such,
in the cells, then, underlies
every human face. . . .

I remember a sudden bright
smile—vacant, inane, arch-
aic—like flowers. . . . The world
was made for pleasure, it said.
Of course I knew otherwise.
Always. But oh, that light—
what could enlighten it!











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