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the sum total of all our poems is :

I WOULD RATHER SUFFER , EVEN DIE

PRETENDING TO BE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE

SEEKING THE CULTURALLY INDUCED

FALSE AND CONTRIVED LOVE

MY PEERS HAVE CHOSEN TO ADOPT

AS REALITY

THAN TO STEP BACK

AS AN INDEPENDANT AND FREE PERSON

AND TRULY COME TO UNDERSTAND LOVE

AND ITS PEROGATIVES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

IN THE HERD IS PEACE

IN THE TRULY HUMAN THERE IS

A FEAR OF SOMETHING THAT IS GREATER

THAN EVEN THE INEVITABILITY

OF A WASTED LIFE OF FRADULENT

EMOTIONS AND PURE SHAME

AND THAT IS TO KNOW ONESELF AS

A TRUE PARTICIPANT IN LIFE ITSELF

A PARTNER OF GOD

A CREATIVE HUMAN BEING

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this we state

Over and over and over again

As we pretend to be unknowing

And unknowable

And that falsity is our only defense

Because the truth does not set one free

But rather

Truth enslaves