At age eight, I learned about freedom;
age twelve, cruelty.
Age thirteen? Sorrow was my schoolmaster
and eighteen, fear.
Twenty-eight I learned to be hollow
a machine without a ghost;
at forty, a parasite fount its host.
Now, years later, I reflect on my education
and realize these things
taught me all the wrong lessons.
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Fränz Müller (
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Indeed they are all part but none the whole of it all and many would say that any one by itself is not a good thing. It is its opposite that has more value
The culminative result, it seems, is insight.
A confessional in good order.
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