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Book 28 Page 18

The choices we make

I could have been any thing I wanted to be.

I had the opportunity, / the money, / the brains.

So ‘who’ and ‘what’ part of me decided that “I should be a bum”?

And is there any wisdom to this?

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au Created on 11/8/00