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Category: Poetry

by Nancy Kay - November 25, 2019November 24, 2019

MONDAY: Harmless

BY PAT RAIA

Copyright is held by the author.

Vice
is
virtue
in disguise —
it
puts
iron
in
the soul
It
winks
at
human
frailty
and
dominates
desire
it’s
just
the thing
that
people
need
to
live
virtuously
especially
those
who
fail
to see
that
no vice
is
harmless


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