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Fish and chips under the pines at Manly,

looking across the small-boat anchorage

to the sail-flecked harbour.  Clear, still evening light.

Stillness undisturbed by the minuscule

Fun Pier (‘Famed for fun since 31’,

‘Happiness is a visit to the Manly Fun Pier’)

where the even motion of the Ferris wheel

contrasts with the Octopus whose tilted axis

and epicycles were designed to illustrate

principles of pre-Copernican astronomy…

Anything is possible here, and probable.

I am out of time, and for the time content.