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You took my words
Made them your own
Didn’t give me credit
Or even throw me a bone
The lack of ethics on full display
Front page news
The headliner today

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Plagiarism : to copy and pass off (the expression of ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's work) without crediting the source

From the Latin word plagiarius meaning“kidnapper”.
Posting or copying other people’s work and taking credit for yourself is wrong.  The ransom you pay is your ethics...maybe more
Do not bury me in a box
of oak or lead or ivory.
I will have no use for pillows
or satin, and no want for clothes.

Do not bid farewell
to my ashes from a clifftop
or kneel in idolatrous
worship at my Grecian altar.

Lay me to rest
beneath an orchard
that you many eat
of my body.

Carve your initials
into the bark
of the apple tree
I am to become
and let me live once more.
hold of me
apple tree
i think i am controlling
but it's holding me
can't frolic
can't be
the apples that grow on this tree
are no good for me
what is no good for you?

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