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The Doors

May 16, 2010
By Sumeet BRONZE, Bakersfield, California
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Sumeet BRONZE, Bakersfield, California
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Favorite Quote:
Addiction is religious devotion.

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Everyone's busy
Making a dollar into a dollar ten.
They call it work.

But one day
The work demands more:
To beg at the doors of originality

The doors remain shut.

Look through the window
And see the home
Where they once lived
Till the rat race took hold.

© Cassie H., Carmi, IL

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