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Poems

Two Roads

9 August 2014

9:00 AM

9 August 2014

9:00 AM

There are the fast people
who check their emails hourly,
engage with Twitter and multi-
task their way through the day.


And there are the slow ones
who never reply even to your third
request, and almost miss
meetings and prefer pencil.



The first — the fast — will be
up to advise the worm,
to value the cup, to out-tweet
all competitors, whatever.


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