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Do It Yourself: A Poem

Advice for the young

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May 04, 2026
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Do It Yourself

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

What new understanding each cohort brings,
Generations next out of nothing spring,
Or so it seems to us who live below,
But unique life the depth of heaven shows;
Life that, once here, insists on looking back
As if at old pictures, varnished and cracked,
Where nuance is lost, but…

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