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"I think, therefore I am" (Cogito, ergo sum), coined by René Descartes in "Meditations on First Philosophy" (1641)

"Mister Joe, poet, jangles loose change in his pocket,
Jogging memories and garnering thoughts as he walks.
For Mr. Joe's brain washes, tumbles and dries,
his gems of thoughts in hourly cycles, with riddles, jingles and rhymes.
Each wash-up, extracted, pegged, and hung up to dry,
To taunt and flap jangles for him, his readers and strangers near by............."
From Poem by the author 'Mr Joe Jangles' see https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/mister_joe_jangles_813798. - With apologies to Jerry Jeff Walker for his famous song "Mr. Bojangles" recorded in 1968. "I knew a man Bojangles and he'd dance for you in worn out shoes." A jingle you cannot forget!

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The Prismatic Self

'I think, therefore I am!'
I write to bang and clang,
to play with words, cast spells.

Wrangle and entangle readers,
with thoughts dredged from memories,
resonating, reverberating within selves,
aligned on shelves, waiting to join in.

An audience of thinkers shaken not stirred,
by the clang and jar of poetic,
rhythms, rhymes, images and ideas.

Rendered with razzmatazz and syncopation,
in the written words rendered,
improvised, and concocted in a group session.

On a stage, on a page,
of prismatic selves, 
jamming and jarring,
banging and clanging,
jangling with Mr Joe,
in worn out shoes.

Afraid, 
that no one is listening, or 
that no one,
really, truly, bluesy cares?

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