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Take

When I want to say

to you whom I know

or who read this, conceding

to get to know me a little,

 

Why do you take that,

You shouldn’t take that,

Don’t take that—

 

You take it all in

and understand.

 

But when I want to say

it to the rest of the world

whom I don’t know—

Well they won’t take that

 

So I’m quiet oftener than not

so as not to be taken

somewhere as

insane.

James B. Nicola

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