Chapter 26: Audition, Unchosen

We all have a role,

expectations to fulfill.

For this we were born?

(To be continued…)

 

©SvetkaSamizdat

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Eulogy For The Dissident… Eulogy For The Intelligentsia… Eulogy For Me.

Once upon a time,

they welcomed us

and our strange, brilliant ideas.

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Funny, how things change.

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It used to be hard to get out,

but get easy to get in.

And Lady Liberty smiled opaquely,

welcoming.

Then came openness and restructuring,

so as to say,

doors opened, doors closed,

houses were besieged,

some fell,

crumbled.

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Now,

lines on maps fluid…

It’s easy to get out,

but hard to get in.

Big thinking no longer enough to impress,

indeed,

system will stress:

“No more welcome,

unless you undress…”

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