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Ontology

i am the eye of a steel bright needle
threaded by time; by a pin-sized camel.
i am the eye at the heart of the storm
that rages and howls, and gives like a baby.
i am the eye that is seeing but blind;
that can not conceive, the rape of itself.

i am the aye, affirmed by tradition
trapped in old phrases that i rarely now use.
i am the aye, that claims to mean yes.
It's hard to be sure. Can we take my word?
i am the aye, or am i an aye-aye?
Dictionary claims i'm half a lemur.

i am the i at the heart of an -ism.
Rip-tide and rocks; possessed and possessing.
i am that i that you never should cross.
i demand to be in capital letters!
i am the i with an atomic dot.
Once indivisible, now just a joke.

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