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Do you not see, you American people, / What the triangle means?
Mind, soul, body.
Man is to live and die / In a little metaphysical, three-roomed apartment, / Office, chapel, and kitchenette.
As I sat and listened to the words of the wise man, / I looked out of the window / And suddenly a feeling of great well-being came on me.
I saw that I was made of the same stuff as the hillside / And that tomorrow I would be flowers, / Or dance in the dust motes in the sun / And that all things are one.
Then two laughing children came / And threw a stone into a fountain / And the ring widened till it was lost in the pool.
Behold a sign!
And I awoke and the wise man babbled like a fool.
And yet, O Great Republic, / The symbol of your state church / Is a triangle, blood red, / Pointing downward.