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The New Romantic

I sat with him

gazed in his warm brown eyes

as he told me of

misunderstood philosophy

and anarcho-capitalism

and being an

agnostic vegan

out of boredom with his own

complacency.

And he pulled his pocket watch

out of his blazer

to check the time

but I could have told him

it would read half past

the debonair gentleman

and the social radical -

so, almost to the overpriveleged apathy

of our lives.

But I kept quiet.

I always did like a rebel.

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Published
May 26, 2010
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