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Jeff Stumpo

Sep 22, 2026

102:05
Yes, of course.
102:10
So my poem is called As Above, So Below, and it begins with the title of a post on the Reddit Shower Thoughts by user Noski.
102:23
Your tongue knows what everything feels like, even if it has never touched those things.
102:30
My tongue has never touched a feather, yet knows the contours of an overhead hawk, has never been pierced, but when I imagine the predator's claws in my mouth, the illusion of pain is perfect.
102:44
This is the garden's gift, that I myself have never tasted the fruit of the knowledge, but I have not the neutrality of the raptor.
102:54
I can feel the evil swelling before I spit.
102:58
There is some goodness on the tip of my tongue, a smooth egg hatching.
103:40
I remembered.

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