Think and Grow Poor

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Think and Grow Poor

I knew when I took this job

That I could never show up for work.

So I haven't, but nobody has missed me.

They seem happy with the shapes I assumed.

But even after years of self-help,

I have acquired none of the seven habits.

I am like old modeling clay.

You can't bend me without cracks appearing.

This is my tilt, my squint, my form.

World: Will you please stop chiseling?

~Richard C.

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