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Fly In the Ointment

Feeling something’s not right a general dissatisfaction or persistent fundamental flaw I look inward for a cause. Dr. Hubris, at your service! Self appointed, to discover, diagnosis and cure the very footsteps he makes in the wilderness of Psyche. But what he finds is the same basic ignorance he always finds, an ignorance at the core of it all so basic there is no cure. And so his footsteps change nothing except leave his tracks across this pristine ground the ground his projecting creative mind self-identifies as flawed…. (10/8/23)

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