My Mistake

"Learning from anothers' mistake fill up the hole before you.."

When i lay my egg:
I mistook a casket for a basket.
And placed the egg in the casket.
The corpse slept in and the egg destroyed.

Nothing is mine now:
Neither the egg nor the casket!

"Observe before you lay"
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Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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