Mirror 1

From PhalkeFactory

a man looked in a mirror in the ground and saw himself. He was enchanted, and ran to call all others. "stand by" he told them and went to take position and slowly lowered his head till he could make of himself that perfect image. "You saw?" he asked. People were polite, they even liked what they saw, they were generous and said nice things. some wished they were being seen similarly and made kind noises, but they were incomplete words, the people walked away, they needed to find somemirrors to look into.

"Hmmmm, Hmmn?" said the man, asking excitedly, but when he lifted his head, he was alone. Alright, he told himself, you must learn to read your own.


Write for your self, he wrote, prepare a mirror with your words, on a sheet of glass make of them / the layer of tin that will hold the silver, let them be/ the correct temperature of flowing water, make them become/ copper and paint that holds in that silver/roll up your sleeves, work, regardless of/ the burning in your ears, don't fear it


look in my love/ you've made a mirr- /or for your self