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the brain's stuck-record button, looping one thought until you either solve it or snap.
eye trickStare hard and stillness slips into shimmering blur
Freud's wordHe blamed it on arrested psychosexual stages
nitrogen tooPlants fixate it from air into food
survival edgeObsessive focus invented vaccines and skyscrapers alike
chemistry senseFixatives lock cells frozen for the microscope