If true

that old age

is but a bad habit …

 what can youth become

 

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Divorcing passion

from intellect

Two orphans 

created

Homeless together

— inside of one soul

 

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If you want

to be free

First

be a prisoner

A captive

of prescience

An inmate

— of self

 

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Contradiction …

a privilege of freedom

 

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Knowledge is a prison

— and freedom its bars

 

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The pedantic 

philosopher

Indistinguishable

— from the fool

 

(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)