sun10jan99
		(another manly secret: striking at or from the heart)
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		a pot handled by its handle
		eaten from: in midair by means of a spoon
		a glass visions pot the middle-sized
		i, standing astride

		this pot is handled by my left hand
		as if a killing-sharp knife

		as when a knife is handled in one's own left hand
		to strike one's own chest or

		when this knife is lifted and arc-swung
		so movie-like to strike another's

		or a surface of a tree: a trunk, a house, a stump

		just this
		for here for now -- i, struck by the symmetry
		a heavy visions honeypot
		which i can see through
		as i eat through

		a dingy winter windshield

		a nice polish barley soup
		(made all the more delicious with american sour cream,
		italian racconto rotini -- yet a soup itself "new"
		and sixty-nine cents.  and instant.)

		experience delicious in all dimensions.

		how this comes home to me
		to my grasp
		to my no wife no knife free to eat from the pot
		free from parents
		free at last free at last _smile_

		solo standing
		without strife
		upright and stowing away my manly-man manly-made
		never done before

		soup position


			Marek Lugowski
			10 January 1999
			Chicago, Illinois