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4d
I can't enjoy unearned grace.
Where's the satisfaction in that?
Unfounded mercy sits uneasy
with self-respect,
(or with self-contempt come to that).

I can't enjoy what I don't deserve.
But it's not the problem you believe;
you see, I am fully self-assured
of what I've earned
And it's more than you'd conceive.

So, you can gift your lavish grace,
on those in a state of thirsty,
on those who are sufficiently naive
who foolishly believe
that they are in need of mercy.

But that's not me.
[Don't believe a word of it.]
Steve Page
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Steve Page  62/M/London, U.K.
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