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Private Language Argument
Don’t turn on the tv.
There’s nothing there. There never was.
Whatever was before was never something much.
No. Switch the wireless to silence.
Leave the record player unplugged.
Forget the music that fills the days with its insistencies.
Come close this afternoon. Put down the books.
Do not concern yourself with the bookmark.
There is little difference from page to page.
Draw the curtains over the windows.
Turn the paintings to the wall.
Hold out instead for the message of this body.
Do not expect the telephone to ring.
Listen only to the movements of this mouth.
Ignore the poems, they are true only half the time.
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