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I am sitting in my office considering
What seems an intractable problem.
Watching a fly buzzing at the window,
Trying desperately to reach the world,
On the other side.

After wand'ring the impenetrable surface,
It tries following another plane,
Running at right angles (the open door),
Finds the edge and flies round it,
And through and away..

An unusually clever fly,
It will probably be eaten,
By one of the dozen or so,
Busily hunting swallows.

But maybe not.
It would have starved in here,
Or been eaten by a spider.

Ed Iglehart July 3rd, 1988

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