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Jim De Filippi writes: I am primarily a novelist, having published forty books. I am a Vietnam Era veteran and retired school teacher who has been living in Salem for ten years.

Inspired by J.D.’s Annoying Sonnet: 

go back and read this poem again from the top~~now again with a British accent and a mustache twirled and twisted into a perfect circle~~C. M. Escher tried to draw a Möbius strip over and over again but always ended up back where he started~~pentameter iambic in backwards sentence this read~~“the highway to hell is paved with eternal dimensions”~~and with bricks shaped like shaped like shaped like brick-shaped~~infinity is just the figure 8 keeled over from too much ezoob~~so try turning this paper upside down and reading it up from the bottom~~this symbol “~~” in italics is pronounced “~~” ~~okay, so now one more time again backwards from here until you’re finished—

Jim De Filippi

Go.

go back and read this poem again from the top~~now again with a British accent and a mustache twirled and twisted into a perfect circle~~C. M. Escher tried to draw a Möbius strip over and over again but always ended up back where he started~~pentameter iambic in backwards sentence this read~~“the highway to hell is paved with eternal dimensions”~~and with bricks shaped like shaped like shaped like brick-shaped~~infinity is just the figure 8 keeled over from too much ezoob~~so try turning this paper upside down and reading it up from the bottom~~this symbol “~~” in italics is pronounced “~~” ~~okay, so now one more time again backwards from here until you’re finished—

Go.

go back and read this ekphrasis again from the top~~now again with a British accent and a mustache twirled and twisted into a perfect circle~~C. M. Escher tried to draw a Möbius strip over and over again but always ended up back where he started~~pentameter iambic in backwards sentence this read~~“the highway to hell is paved with eternal dimensions”~~and with bricks shaped like shaped like shaped like brick-shaped~~infinity is just the figure 8 keeled over from too much ezoob~~so try turning this paper upside down and reading it up from the bottom~~this

— Jim De Filippi

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