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How to Use a Black Mirror
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Did you ever open a door?
And see leaves tossing in the sun --
But there are no leaves,
And there is no sun.
It's night and that's moonlight
Catching the wind that chops the water
of a black lake.
When no one's around the eyes play tricks.

Did you ever hear this song?
“Earlobes, earlobes, earlobes,
I love you, I love you.”
But there are no earlobes
And there is no love --
Dude's singing in Icelandic.
Misheard lyrics hide a secret
You'll never know.
When no one's around the ears play tricks.

Now do it on purpose:

Hold a black lake in your lap,
To reflect sunset on the edge of sight.
But there is no lake
And there is no light --
Only something black reflecting something invisible.
Reality is, that everything we see is invisible
Made of quarks and hadrons and leptons out of range --
Illusions of the brain let us function.
When no one's around, decipher the mind's tricks.

Black mirror, mind over matter.
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