Witness Protection

We believe we’ve reason to believe
that all imaginable species whether

in what we call palpable reality
or in our dreams achieve their purposes
and demonstrate their fitness by assenting
to become each other’s witness.
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Sentient being would soon smother
in a killing isolation if it hadn’t access
to some mode of “seeing” there’s an Other.
Doesn’t have to be a mother or a lover.
We only dare to care if we can swear
that something else is there.
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