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It would have delighted Bishop Berkeley by

Seeming to understand and demonstrate

What no one could refute by kicking stones,

The one dependency that links the mind

The senses and the world: whatever is made

The object of your vision is so made

Because another is looking at it too,

A fraction of a second earlier.

The straying lens across the battlefield,

The cameraman's quivering hand considering death,

The instant replay-all of them shopworn,

All soiled and secondhand goods of this world

Shake in God's wavering attention just

An instant before we see it as out there.