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Original poem reprinted online here: "They Have a Point" by Jennifer Boyden Originally read: July 1, 2013 More information about the Poet: Jennifer Boyden The poem plays with perspective.  On on hand there's the definition of "mystery" being played around with, and on the other, the definition of "body" is being played with. "When the gods gave us all the holes / leading into our darkness, they planned / on our needing a mystery."  With this first sentence, there's the divine is in control and creates, "holes" in the body -- reason, to create mystery for those who have bodies.  Past me noted, "our darkness -- Pandora."  I guess what I was trying to think of is why.  The tone of the sentence is like a folktale, and so the outsider perspective is rather prominent here. Just like the gods, "It amuses them / that what is inside the body / is more body.  The same body, but different."  The language here is simple,...