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          Philosophic
 in its complex, ovoid emptiness,
 a skillful pundit coined it as a sort
     of stopgap doorstop for those
            quaint equations
            Romans never
 dreamt of. In form completely clever
 and discrete—a mirror come unsilvered,
      loose watch face without the works,
               a hollowed globe
             from tip to toe
 unbroken, it evades the grappling
 hooks of mass, tilts the thin rim of no thing,
      remains embryonic sum,
              non-cogito.