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I've Lived Too Much in Too Few Years

Well, they say that the key to life, Is to simply maintain motion.               So when you can't breathe the air,               It's best to emulate the ocean. I've found that I'm much better-off moving, So I'll let these currents do the choosing.              **Because I can't decide myself,               If my self-worth is worth proving.** I've got wounds that need soothing.                          I'm so tired of losing. I've lived too much, in too few years,                         For such a lack of improving.                                   -    -    - I need a device to twist this plot - Some sort of deus ex machina. I need a key to this lock,             But, there's something blocking the             Path to my salvation.             I still long to feel elation. But I'm being strangled by the laws Of this "freedom-filled" nation.                        I fell under the illusion                        Of a perfect constitution.                        But, this justice isn't clean.                        It's hardly more than sheer pollution.
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May 15, 2013
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"Bad Luck: In a Wakeful Contradiction" is now available on Amazon in paperback!

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1691941182

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#freedom#individuality#life#machine#law#illusion#justice#self#motion#real
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