Touching flax seeds
Have you ever touched flax seeds? You can get about a million of them in a small bag for, like, $.49 from a health food store.
Go buy some right now, and stick your hand in the bag.
There is surprise in the touch - as if your fingers were expecting heft, some thingly seedliness --
and instead, you sense something nearly incapable of being touched; your first sensation is of what is not there, so light, so well-tooled, like tiny gossamer plastic flakes coated in trillions of infinitesimally delicate ball bearings,
or like the lightest imaginable tropical oil turned to snow,
putting into your hand presentiments of motion, of
whirrings sufficiently refined
as to constitute presumptive evidence of beings normally considered to be
out of the range of thought
let alone
of touch
9:26:43 PM 
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