Salience

Salience

A Poem by Pete
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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. - Thoreau

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sight, sound, smell. taste, touch
doors of perception unhinged
unaware of such



© 2024 Pete


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Pete
"Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring." - Thoreau

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Added on May 22, 2024
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Pete
Pete

Boston, MA



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