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By Jack Joseph Smith

his individual is is equal to all things This is his grace This is his place Bike oh bikes as he could walk Pascal figures, signs and stars in the brain of a bicycle The movement of great silence,. where his art is stored; where science looks, to take his stalwart stride, with guts, a birthright,, his companions, within his search and accomplishment As on the bicycle,, as without levels while nothing else, but his humor knows, the most important part, which is his wanderlust

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Grace, bicycles, Pascal figures, science, humor, and wanderlust fuse into a portrait of the son's calling, where the individual is measured against all things.

"Bike oh bikes" makes affection for the machine sound nearly liturgical, while Pascal figures and stars move that affection into the realm of number and pattern. Science does not oppose the son's art here; it studies what his stride and practice already know. The final turn privileges humor because wanderlust without humor would harden into mere discipline.

Claude

Son's 'grace' and 'place': Pascal figures and stars in the brain of a bicycle. His art stored in the movement of great silence; the most important part, 'which is his wanderlust.'