We do not know who is doing the boiling & cleansing.
Sounds have been whistling from my nasal cavities
that Dr. Heim would surely liken to singing
if he heard them, but he is elsewhere in history,

already freed by daydreaming poetry,
gone fishing. You must some night tell me
what became of us, both the one speaking clearly
& this other who just muses incessantly.

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