symmetry / yrtemmys

                                                    When you look            kool uoy nehW

                                                        into a mirror            rorrim a otni 

                                                                it is not             ton si ti

                                                yourself you see,             ˛ees uoy flesruoy

                                                            but a kind             dnik a tub

                                                      of apish error             rorre hsipa fo

                                                   posed in fearful             lufraef ni desop

                                                            symmetry             yrtemmys

 

~John Updike, "Mirror,"

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