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Progressive regression, 13/5/8

To you! Pen down! Or stand down.
They're quick to draw, with pen on standby,
they're here to say your form is out of form.
It's you who has no luster.
So take your scrawl and deem it no more.
Do wake to perpetual reality:
it's yesterday all over again.
Stay slow to draw their eye.

Even this composition is predisposed to accident:
the defenders are indeed those prone, they girt the tenet!
Do not seek to enlighten; there's no place for voice.
What have you? Lest the form be abandoned.
Do pen the old. Rewrite the write.
It's for your freedom...ungrasp!

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