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The Role Model

Would that I could be a star an athlete with great fame renown to sink a ball into a hoop or smack a ball with a wooden bat and carry a ball across a field where the measure of man is contractual gain even though I must play in the rain a role model for the common youth even though I am uncouth I may shoot a man abuse a woman commit adultery when I can I can box very well and beat someone without a care and if that doesn't work I’ll bite off an ear I must practice each day to make the win and after the game, let the fun begin excellent drugs, let freedom ring! ah, would that I could be a star an athlete with great fame renown I just sign here and here’s my goal all I do is sell my soul © Ralph Sergi

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Date: 12/5/2014 1:17:00 PM
Hi Funom: Thank for your comment.
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Date: 12/5/2014 9:44:00 AM
Great piece of artistic creativity here.. thanks for the wonderful share.
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Date: 9/16/2014 7:46:00 PM
Thank you,Nette: I wrote that poem quite a few years and I only submitted it because of more spousal abuse and now child abuse. There is something about a sports figure that makes him think he's a god.
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Date: 9/16/2014 3:37:00 PM
fame can sometimes consume a person and make him less humane... your work is brilliant, serge.. huggs
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