Foucault's Pendulum: The Platypus Reads Part CCXVII

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Ketr unknown
Light shon
Hokhmah it fills to shine
Binah to make its sign
A Schism
i'
Hesed is so fine

Emotion knows it
Gevurah breaks what we ill lit
Tiferet
Et Bonum Veritas est en Netzach
Hod ek
To Yesod and ends Malkuth
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lasselanta said…
So, dear readers, remember your high school literature teacher telling you that poetry is not a code you have to crack? Yeah. Ignore that for this post.
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