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Play It Again, Sam

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I feel like Saint Nicholas at the council of Nicea
Facing off with a stubborn fool.
Nothing I say is getting through to you;
I want to…

The middle is an awkward place:
Pushed and pulled from either side,
I try to carve out my own space
To love myself, to have some pride.

I made myself a copy of what I should have been,
And buried who I am so deep I couldn’t see —
Underneath my pious rags and cries of…