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The Solipsist Suffers


by Gary Hardaway


Past my furthest fingertip
I can confirm nothing
but impressions of the world

that appear beyond my
body's reach. I cannot trust
the curvature of Earth

that shows in photographs
unless I touch it. I think
the photographs exist

only to perplex me. The pain
of this perplexity is all
that I can know as real.
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