BAD FATE

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    BAD FATE
    BAD FATE

    Bad fate
    follows me like a razor
    cutting the beard off my face
    at bad angles
    leaving my jowels stripped

    I accidentally sent
    the other day
    ironic email memos
    to the subject of my irony
    instead of the intended recipient
    He worked for the secret police
    I had told of his scandals
    and held him up to ridicule

    What sort of fate
    is attached to my forefinger.
    What drives these errors?
    How deadly these coincidences may become
    I have no idea

    I ask the Kosmos
    To better inspire my words
    But there is some trick to all this
    Still – I can take a hint

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    Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

    Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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