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Feeding after "Beautiful Women"
I’d like to write my thoughts
on paper,
but it could never happen as I want.
Something’s always
blocking my creative side.
A lot of the time
I don’t even know what it is.
What’s worse is when you know what it is.
In context, it’s always yourself…
More or less.
Your thinking will always be your downfall. Just
like the roses that grow,
only to die
and wilt in the fall.
You’ve trapped your own bird
in it’s own cage.
But I don’t want to talk about cages,
it’s more about
what you feed the bird. I might say that if you “Feed” him,
one day he will grow big enough to break free.
What have you been feeding your bird?
So,
Let’s think.
You’re a bird.
So what are your cages?
And what have you fed him?

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