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Poems

Epitaph for a Star

9 July 2015

1:00 PM

9 July 2015

1:00 PM

A chance in a million: he was perfectly cast
In the role of his own life, though he almost flipped
When told it was all in the future, and not in the past,
And someone (who?) had forgotten to give him the script.
He tried his damnedest, but there were other factors
That made the going tough.




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