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Roasting Indifference

You’re an overnight cessation                                                                                                                                                   like an encounter of the third kind                                                                                                                                                with an alienation                                                                                                                                                                                       that was so funny you forgot to laugh                                                                                                                         if you don’t mind me speaking apathetically                                                                                                                            I just flew in from Vegas and boy you don’t care                                                                                                                        if there was a shot for callousness you would be immune                                                                                               the deadness is only moved by your inertia                                                                                                                           what about those eyes                                                                                                                                                       they are like mirrors of oblivion                                                                                      It is hard to watch you biting your own hand

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Date: 12/9/2016 10:50:00 PM
John, love the play on words and old adages herein. Enjoyable and somehow thought provoking read,
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John Beam
Date: 12/10/2016 8:31:00 AM
Thanks, John. I was studying on indifference and quotes most are really degrading, so I tried to light it up.

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