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Lavish Praise Not Sought

Painful self actualization quickly brights to light paltry reasons (with or without rhyme) a desolate sight within blinkered mindseye hindsight grotesque grimace shocks with affright desolate landscape precipitated when airtight vacuum sealed sequestered, muckraked, furloughed... which past existence now doth bite back with a vengeance more agonizing than any imaginable plight feeble effort thru poetry to portray psychological bombsight cathartic, emetic, pathetic... ejection minus (all gore rhythm) red tattered torn flesh ala bullfight, vigil held under deathly hallowed candlelight lack of living will trumped right against autopsy, eh scant material worth any copyright deceased did request mourners to revel in daylight of life (l'chaim) delight within simple pleasures downright unfettered, yet respectful of self and others fight for peace with strong lanced arms, yet...shy away from fistfight while standing firm on righteous ground, versus passively taking flight modestly acknowledge accomplishments, sans reflection initial birthed floodlight ideally rejoice asper positive contribution within webbed, wide world despite shortcomings vis a vis height insight, might,... dismissing as trite customary, healthy, quality traits sustaining virtuous yeast leavening kindled hindsight carried into darkness of afterlife soul asylum void of oblivion analogous to eternal midnight, where surviving kin begat, viz biological millwright, which sunny daughters became darling lasses overnight I ask do not weep, nor mourn, neither heap exaggerated flattery, quite upon the head of this beastly boyish sight, whose dying wish expansive though slight points to stopping for persons white red, brown, black...since one's birth until...final seconds usher mortal into twilight!

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