The problem with poetry today:
most say nothing in a pretty way.

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Emerson once asked: “Why are you in here?”
Jailed Thoreau replied: “Why are you out there?”

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The lawless make the laws
where predator’s ambitions set their jaws.

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There’s an echo in the air
but a silence from the Chair.

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“I’m innocent
because I feel no guilt.”

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They claim to be so knowledgeable
ideas just hit their minds like hail.

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An increase of wartime indignation
over ideas, their speaker didn’t even believe in.

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Laying waste to the future does not abrogate
the suffering which influences from the past.

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Knowledge, not vision is the reason
we were exiled from Eden.