Partly. Rae Armantrout

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       What We Can Say

      1

      “The traumatized rats practiced excessive self-grooming.”

      Thinking is practice.

      The idea that we can improve

      is a form of self-grooming.

      Adjusting to the rapidly changing orientations

      of figures on a screen

      can feel like having a succession of ideas,

      each of which must be incorporated

      into our current attitude.

      To incorporate change without disorientation

      is to win.

      2

      “Ideas link things in novel ways.”

      We might say that music

      attempts to make time

      into space—visualizable, repeatable.

      (We may have said this previously.)

      Or we may say music

      attempts to make space into time

      so that between the current

      stances of the musicians

      there exists something like flow.

      But there is really no direction

      in comparison,

      only the desire

      that two entities

      become one,

      as if reduction in number

      were the purpose

      of all thought.

      3

      Though it’s also true

      that one gets bored.