Robin Wasserman TORN

For my parents, Barbara and Michael Wasserman, who did everything right.

(Though I never did get a puppy.)

All moveables of wonder, from all parts,

Are here—

The Bust that speaks and moves its goggling eyes,

The Wax-work, Clock-work, all the marvellous craft

Of modern Merlins, Wild Beasts, Puppet-shows,

All out-o’-the-way, far-fetched, perverted things,

All freaks of nature, all Promethean thoughts

Of man, his dulness, madness, and their feats

All jumbled up together, to compose

A Parliament of Monsters….

—William Wordsworth

Humans are machines of the angels.

—Jean Paul

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