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incredulity
best, perhaps, to take everything
you hear or read as fiction
until proven otherwise
like the tourist tale from the cathedral
with the organ pipes suspended
from the ceiling where it is said
that the organist dons repelling gear
and is hoisted up to play suspended
among the pipes