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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{voyage of a beagle}
  spencer dew


“It is reasonable to suppose that man’s capacities
As a knower
Are also a product of evolution, of nature”

I am thinking of your throat, its intelligent design
Backless, slinky, with a knack for the staggering

“Man’s knowing must be some kind of natural relation to his world.”
True sentences, is today’s trivial topic
The route of things, whether singing fancy songs helps songbirds
Like sonar for bats and submarines
The locusts come up every seventeen years
And the bees dance round in circles of eight

You have no discernible gag reflex
And this, alone, amazes me