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Common Side Effects

You enter your mind daily.
Sometimes you swim in an eye-socket.
Science has proven
that poetry is highly contagious
so never go anywhere or mingle
with the rest of humanity.
Sadly there is no cure.
Eventually the brain gets spongy
which of course
is the only upside to this condition,
for it can be used to mop up
after you spill your guts
all over a page.

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Date: 6/2/2022 12:53:00 PM
Can you hear my rueful laughter?
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Eric Ashford
Date: 6/3/2022 7:31:00 AM
Yes, we laugh together. Cheers!

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