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											| There is no 'New Deal' |  | by   Robert E Bastarache |  | there are those who walk among us unfettered others encumbered by burdens unduly assumed.
 
 by these selfsame burdens they are consumed:
 never free of a load unbidden
 merely possessed
 yoked
 chained
 with no hope of reprieve
 
 Yet these fools
 knowing full well
 the nature of their Quixotic folly
 choose demise over conquest
 to wear the fruit of their desire
 as a badge of honor
 tainted all too soon.
 
 Grab those cups
 I shall be found among them
 no badge
 no honor
 no quota
 shall be found nor effected
 to save me...
 
 
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