“The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.”
~ Sylvia Plath
Copyright – Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
I wonder,
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How can someone so singular in mind,
Be so double in their standards?
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How can someone so longing to be freed from outside opinion,
Be so ready to compartmentalize all others?
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How can someone so desiring of respect from this very same outside,
Be so ready to marginalize all those who would freely give it.
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I wonder,
But in knowing that no answer to my puzzlement is forthcoming,
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Decide to wonder no more.
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Deciding that Rochelle’s image provided a near-perfect excuse to empty my mental closet of some very old and unneeded worry, I jumped full-on with this week’s Friday Fictioneers. I hope you decide to jump on (full or otherwise) as well…
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