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Who Are You? A Sonnet

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May 05, 2026
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Who Are You?

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

I’m sorry your moniker I forgot,
Delicious lengths of time I’ve been away
From this crap town and those miserable days
When in a narrow grave I thought to rot.
Fear of other, fear of feeling too much,
Fear of rising higher, glowing brighter
And eclipsing stunted ankle-biters,
A mob …

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