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Ikkyu Reiterations: Koan

As if they know you,

gossips snipe and sneer.


Someone hands you a fan

with provenance. It’s broken.


So, where  is this rhinoceros?


That line on the page divided:

a definition acts as a wall.


One number resists division;

neither the we, nor the I.


Who were you then? Who now?

(May 1, 2022)