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# #36. Ratio Sufficiens.
- URL: https://www.layersofzoe.net/36-ratio-sufficiens/
- Published: 2026-04-01T22:33:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-01T22:43:10.000Z
- Author: Layers of Zoe
- Tags: Signals, administered cruelty, history, the peninsula

The floor is eighteen.  
The trapdoor, older –  
there since 1940,  
survived the carnations,  
asks only for sufficient reason.

A colleague of the man who hung it  
has requested three of him,  
in bronze,  
at street level.

He observes it, on Sundays.

Speaks, with much feeling,  
about the Roma  
and their weddings.