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George Murray

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

George Murray

Poetry

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The author humorously imagines that everyday objects like his fridge might secretly affect his poetry without his knowledge. However, he finds it surprising to think that his fan could have any awareness or thoughts about him at all.

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