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Treacherous as trap door spiders, they ambush children's innocence. "Why is there g h in light? It isn't fair!" Buddha declared the world illusory as the p sound in psyche. Sartre said the same of God from France, Olympus of silent letters, n'est -ce pas? Polite conceals an e in the same way "How are you?" hides "I don't care." Physics asserts the desk I lean on, the brush that fluffs my hair, are only dots that punctuate a nullity complete as the g sound in gnome, the c e in Worcestershire. Passions lurk under the saint's bed, mute as the end of love. They glide toward us, yellow eyes gleaming, hushed as the finality of hate, malice, snake. As easily predict the h in lichen, choral, Lichtenstein, as laws against throttling rats, making U-turns on empty streets. Such nonsense must be memorized. "Imagine dropkicking a spud," Dad said. "If e breaks off your toe, it spoils your potato." Like compass needles pointing north, silent letters show the power of hidden things. Voiced by our ancestors, but heard no more, they nudge our thoughts toward death, infinity, our senses' inability to see the earth as round, circling the sun in a universe implacable as "Might Makes Right," ineffable as tomorrow's second r, incomprehensible as imbroglio's g, the e that finishes inscrutable, imponderable, immense, the terrifying k in "I don't know."
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