nice
and compliant, easy
to get along with
until
we break,
and then at last
the hidden
true self
is revealed.
some break easy,
some break
hard
needing time to be
pushed just
once more
across that drawn
line.
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- Stephen Chute
- west springfield, virginia, United States
- these are all FICTIONAL stories and characters, with humor and pathos, emotional complaints of the soul and are in no way representative of any real experiences in my or anyone else's life. any similarities are purely coincidental, except for the dog poems.
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