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    Here’s Looking At Me, Kid

    “‘How funny I was when I was a puppet!’”
    —Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi,     The Adventures of Pinocchio

    Everything I say is a distraction around the lies I tell myself: “I am so
    Hard done to!”
    It’s because

    I lie: I know I walk in—not
    Blind—but desperate
    For something difficult: I must feel so hard done to!
    But not
            

    Anymore, as this poem
    Is already over, as I refuse to continue with it: it is

    Awful—even more lies. Another coward’s itch!
    Instead
    I am playing

    More blinds in remaining…
    Blind… as I safely
            

    Scream at you instead, as you are
    A twisted liar in fact because look
                                                            At the mess you

                                    Left me in how could you
            

                                                                            Do this to me?

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