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SEEING THINGS (1)

Just because I am
a thing that likes
this one day
and that the next
and the other the
other day
I don't understand
why Gurdjieff (or
anyone else) should say
that I am not
a thing -
a thing that has moods
certainly, but is,
nonetheless, continuous -
moving, yes,
but in a frame and still
(while I can) remembering
this,
that,
and the other thing,
the question being
not what I am but what
I am becoming, even
building.
I believe,
contrary to Gurdjieff,
that everyone is building
something,
something like a tower
in Jerusalem, in
the desert (2
Chronicles 26, 9-10)
and that everyone
- always - sees
something
no-one else can see.

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