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# Circular Reasoning
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/circular-reasoning/
- Published: 2025-10-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: A snake appears content to slither unlike the dolphin and the whale, though if you bother asking either the tale is rather of the tail: for cetaceans, an appendage and thus a portion, a percentage of the entire body’s...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

A snake appears content to slither  
unlike the dolphin and the whale,  
though if you bother asking either  
the tale is rather of the tail:  
for cetaceans, an appendage  
and thus a portion, a percentage  
of the entire body’s length,  
although the source of all its strength.  
But for the snake? A harder question:  
Where does snake end, and tail begin?  
Without a rattle or a fin,  
it’s hard to know, but a suggestion  
to help the skeptic get it right:  
start from the end that doesn’t bite.

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