miss schoolgirl, RN

A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably.

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once i opened my window and you sat there, like a pale, long-legged bird. i think you tried to speak, but you may have been weeping. i asked you why you were sitting there, in a tree, in december, but you simply shook your head, unsmiling, and blew me a kiss. only when you had jumped did i remember that you no longer slept beside me. this brought me a bitter sweat-wash of regret. 

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Instead of cajoling romance out of the woodwork

I focus on overthrowing these bartering tables

No one in my temple has any patience left

For trades and vanities

And I simply dig with sore and ugly hands 

Towards foundation

Even so, remnants of illusory magic cling to me 

And remain - in rapid succession I am

Knight errant, scornful genius, cynical fortress

An overworked platitude

And nothing fits for truth is more complex than labels

More than a cardboard caricature in pastel chalks