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Random Excerpt #49

See I took their advice. I went to school and I got my degree. I got a good job, and I started a family. I bought a new house and a car that seats four with enough trunk space to travel afar... But for all their advice that they offered to me they never said HOW that would make me free, or even how following lists to the dot would bestow upon me the chance to be happy... and I realized this: their advice, all those things that they told me to do on the principle that I would never feel blue, was really a guise to become just a cog in an engine room veiled behind steam and smog. They offered a fast track into the system, "become another mindless victim!" But I used my free time to study and read, while my peers drank beers or sipped on martinis, as such I grew taller when standing atop my stacks of books that our teachers forgot.




Words by Phill
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Written on 2014-07-31 at 05:17

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Nabeela Altaf
I have been tying to verse a poem on the very same topic but have failed so far. You have done a magnificent job. Halfway through this, I found myself nodding and saying; 'Why didn't I think of that?'
2014-08-01


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2014-07-31


F.i.in.e Moods The PoetBay support member heart!
This hits a sensitive nerve for me as the reader. Well-put!
2014-07-31