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Allen, Hervey: Dead Men - ZaunköniG - 30.04.2007 Dead Men To a Metaphysician If they were shadows walking to and fro Upon a screen you call reality, Then, when the light fails, where do shadows go? This boy enigma rapes philosophy. But if they really occupied three-square, And now are only shadows on a screen, How can the light still cast a shadow there From shades of shadows that have never been? Such questions are a mimic pantomime Of ghosts to utter nothings in dream chairs, Myopia squinting in a mist of time, An eye that sees the eye with which it stares. Your light too clearly shows the ancient stigma Of questions solved by posing an enigma. |