Hi Carl, Jim, Susan and John! Thanks a bunch for giving this a go and providing your responses. This doesn't seem to be doing its job yet. While it's obviously bouncing off the Stevens poem, it isn't meant to be a philosophical treatise but rather something closer to a slip-and-slide (playful).
I'm glad the Wittgenstein is coming across to you, John. The poem, in my head, is more or less as you have it in yours -- the strange possibility-impossibility of projections into others' heads (of any species).
But it's clear the language isn't proving sensual or succulent enough in its current incarnation -- it certainly shouldn't be coming over as precious and pedantic, as it seems to be doing.
Thank you again, all of you, for your kind attention here.
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