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September 18, 2018
By notTopher SILVER, Flower Mound, Texas
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"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."-Alan Watts

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The beats are at it again

Snapping, clapping, tapping

On little African drums

A spoken poem on the credibility of sin

A single tear runs down one’s chin

Dropping into the cappuccino, ruining the art

Or perhaps it makes it better?

They chastise society yet refuse the witch doctor

Forget common sense in favor of high society

One man’s hipster is another man’s follower

Let hypocrites thrive for they are the fools

And let us all mourn for the impossibility
of originality

© Molly B., Needham, MA

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