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tunnel in his head.

A time tunnel.
Memory.

The tunnel runs in both directions. The future
hits him in the face

as catastrophically as the past
smacking him from behind

as it smashes into the future
that hits him in the face as it –

each obliterates the other
on contact so that

there is no present moment
to be in.

René is
only in the sense that
he is
never-ending now

pulled in all directions
along the tunnel

between
extremes

until they bleed
one into the other

until

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the idea of time
loses meaning

even as
a continuum

even as
a string of pearls

that once Georgette may have worn
if she had been everything there is

and she was that
once – in a song.

René understands
that every time is now –

and nothing
rather than everything

is what happens
at once.

The tunnel appears to take the form
of a spirograph scrawl.

It appears to make the observer –
outside time itself – consider

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a man
        tipping

his own
        burnt skull

into
        the well –

consider –

"I am so dead I'm what daisies push up" –

consider –

chrononaut agonistes –

consider –

someone has
cored Magritte's apple.

Someone has stolen
the bowler.

Someone has taken away the flesh
and left only this

almost-
copy

Someone has left only this
Someone has left only

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Someone has left
They've left

They
The
Th
T

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