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GUILTY by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM

First Line: IT IS DANGEROUS TO MOCK AN INSIGNIFICANT MAN
Last Line: YOU WERE MOCKING.
"ONE is not duchess
A hundred yards from a carriage."
-- @3Wallace Stevens.@1

It is dangerous to mock an insignificant man.
He may run from himself
And grow very big.
Then you have a guilty feeling
It was the big man
You were mocking.



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