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CERTAINTY by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: HOW IS IT THAT HUMAN BEINGS / ARE SO CERTAIN OF EVERYTHING?
Last Line: THAT CANNOT BE SO.
Subject(s): LIFE;
HOW is it that human beings
Are so certain of everything?
Every man will tell you, fiercely,
That he has bought far more lunches
For other men
Than have been bought for him.
And yet, mathematically,
That cannot be so.



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