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[Narcissus the Debutante]

newcomer grows in, killing familiarity

the wealthy scramble to incorporate

he attends their dinners

like demons they need new bodies

downlooker comes to town, comes to their parties

they think him shy

no, he knows there’s no such thing as eye contact

the wolf has a horizontal sweet spot on its retina

for spotting prey on the prairie

the stranger has a narcissus

shaped sweet spot

all the better to spot himself

here is his typewriter retina,

he swaggers from ocular to oracular

to alienate everyone comprehensively, encyclopedically

is to become, in essence, alien