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Toward The Cliff


The Pied Piper of failure

loose in our schools

Cacophony playing

of pedants and fools

 

He lures and beguiles 

to those innocent souls

Who locked in his footsteps

—will never be whole

 

(The New Room: March, 2023) 

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