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


Author's Note

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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