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Ordinary Average Thoughts

Confounding expectations since 1963

The disguise is not helpful (A poem)

2015/11/25

A slight improvement this morning…

It may allow the man
to escape the situation
the construct he has built
the shell that protects his skin—

but he cannot escape
the man within

(25 November 2015)

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