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Feb 2019
The fall back is spectacular,
almost unique
where the
'straight and the narrow'
is only
the highwire we walk as we
seek
safer ground.

I know
I've been around.

In the 'eyes in the back of my head' mode,
talking in code to the wind-walkers and
hearing the shallowness of success,
falling back is only a party trick,
a look and make you feel sick kick

I know
I've done it.

Not too proud of it that I can't speak of it.

But it ends making friends with myself.

I suppose that to be true.
John Edward Smallshaw
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John Edward Smallshaw  68/Here and now
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