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The only thing I did today...

The only thing I did today… I will never be one of the great ones. She proclaimed, “Mediocre.” I have licked the lollipop of mediocrity, the sweetness pulled me in. The never trying harder, became easier. Laying down, lying about laying down. I will go nowhere, and nowhere will welcome me. For I am as mediocre as any member of nowhere can be. The machine of dull people will suck me in, another cog in slow motion doing nothing. I will never be quoted, nor doted upon by any hero. Never a leading lady just the shadow around the spotlight. Mediocrity is an evil friend, one who I welcomed into my head. No matter how much I plod him, he never pays his rent. Me and mediocrity are fated betrothed, but no matter because I’ve forgotten what light looks like. And striving to see is forbidden by mediocrity and me.
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courtney-dougal
American
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Nov 7, 2011
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