machinist’s paradox

stripping copper 
wire
yes but
also scrap
unused
this metal


cannot wire
impure
so smelting
is wasting

rests at feet
begs
“Use! Use!”
no use
bend down
in this box
here
blackened copper
taken off
clothes for
a naturist


is the wire still
it
or changed
too far
now new
clean but without

does the wire,
now pure,
remember copper
or(e)?

2018

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