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                                     ­         Thoreau-ly August

“The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation,”
Protested Thoreau in hopeless exasperation.
One would not enter into disputation
With a famous writer of great reputation

But

Alas that here our lives are rank perspiration!

- From The Road to Magdalena, 2012
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