Poem for Display in a Hospital Waiting Room

Dave BontaContemplative

The doors swing both ways; be careful. From either side, the other looks like out. This mystery your body is like a Klein bottle, all surface, no way in. From the inevitably flawed models, it appears to intersect itself: it dwells within the without. That’s why the wind — or is it breath? — can’t be held, & you need a fourth dimension to lose those edges called sickness, to become whole.

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both ways; be .
the other like out.
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