I remember this, sitting across from you,
a table strewn with newspapers, receipts. 
Window shade pulled against dirty ashtrays,
wadded up tissues and orange peels.

I remember this, your eyes
narrowing, your fingers stretching
toward a dirty spoon. Your assertion,
calmly, grotesquely so:

Our modern man, our likely result
in mass-produced humanity -- 
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