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03 / 40 · I. The Word

you begin a sentence
and the machine
finishes it

not wrongly
but too soon

the word you would have found
after a pause
after a breath
replaced
by the word
that fits
and fits
and fits

until the sentence
is no longer yours
but not quite
anyone else’s either

a thought
that arrived
before you had time
to think it
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