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Wheels and gears whirred.

The metal chair rolled to face right

at the flick of the switch

by a scalloped finger

sculpted from its melting muscles.

His legs scissored

on the chair supports

to dangle from his bulging torso.

His face was large in comparison,

the mouth frozen

in a mirthless grin

his languid tongue squirmed,

puddled in saliva.

In his agile mind

he played with cosmic questions:

a finite universe,

expansion and contraction,

details of the Big Bang.

Concepts pinballed through brain circuitry,

bridged the frontal neocortex,

crossed the callosal bridge,

tagged temporal meshes,

leapt to the limbic lobe,

. . . [Full Text of this Article]

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