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A thing moves or doesn't.
Is or isn't.
Nothing fuzzy in these branches
      with one foot in & one foot out.
This is irregardless.
Like some gasoline trucks used to read:

      IMFLAMMABLE

Could not prevent all hell breaking loose
      converging with a second vehicle in the centre
            of an intersection at 90 miles per hour, whether
Red, Yellow or Green.
Def'n having more to do with
      how a thing behaves in a given flaming instant

Than what we name it.
Burns.