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The visiting hours are over,
lying in bed killing time
(As if we could kill time
without injuring eternity - Thoreau)
Wondering about saints
and sausages (Moritz)
and how having an archbishop
in your family might be
like having an American Envoy
in your family,
so that Basel 1,000 years ago
is Iraq today.
A reasonable person would accept this
as proof evolution is not directed
or deterministic.
Or, one might conclude we have forgotten history.