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By Any Other Name...


Sometimes trying hard to win,

it’s more important not to lose

 

Semantics jumbled, meanings gray,

the angle of your view

 

The victor truant, a rose a rose,

when called by something else

 

The winner left still undeclared

—the loser on the shelf 

 

(Wendy On Ozark: May, 2022)

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Kurt Philip Behm

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