I, cleverer than chair,
will not survive its sawdust guts.
The handy head, caching more memories
than closet hats,
will let fall its fisted loot.
And brainy hand, full of fingers rippling
rich as piano keys,
will lie in untuned ruin
while rill and run still sweetly leap
over the ivory air.
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