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I won't blame my maladjustment
on the school system, even
though Metamorphosis wasn't
assigned on the curriculum.
That's the Kafka, not the Duff,
though the latter wasn't even
cut until years later.
Now my age is showing.
Though I suppose it's still up in
the air.
All you need to do
is look at my profile, anyway.
You know where to find it;
And I'm not referring to Facebook.
It is a few clicks away,
just don't make fun of my nose.
5 minutes.
Next phrase: nerves of aluminum
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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