For Kicks, a Cinquain

Submitted by Virge on Fri, Jan 26, 2007 - 13:28
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I'm not
Responsible;
I sit on the table,
Waiting for the tendon hammer--
To blame.

This came out of some thoughts that ran through my mind as I was reading a discussion of moral agency in Daniel Dennett's Freedom Evolves. I initially envisaged it as something around sonnet length, but the concept boiled right down to a snapshot of self-delusion.