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THAT IS NOT A

that is not a Rene Magritte

pipe or no pipe
that is not he

this is not
a Rene Magritte either

but this, this,
is THE Rene Magritte

supplement, complement,
signifier, signified,
index
icon
the essence before and after
existence

of the man so surreal he makes

mincemeat of
your preconceptions

sitting at table with Dali, Miro,
de Chirico, Man Ray
and Jean-Paul Sartre

me dropping all those names:
only way they
would let me
into the restaurant
not to mention this

their poem