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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{narrow minds}
  rae pater



You look at the world as though
it were a pinhole theatre,

the view of your mighty "I"
so narrow and confined.

How can the universe bloom for you
through such a constricted passage?

The pedestal of your point of view
is spare as the tip of a pin.

Like the man who couldn't fit
through the eye of a needle,

you will never see heaven.