“Mr Cogito however / dislikes living as-if” Zbigniew Herbert, “Mr Cogito’s Monster”
As if chunks of ice
gleamed all over the Bay on
this hot August cloud-
less day. Superbly
blue the sky-struck water where
Swan-white nothings float
in my sweat-dimmed eye.
All this happened before change
changed “as if” to “that.”
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