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[sid] => 24054
[catid] => 1
[aid] => Mick
[title] => Against the Odds
[time] => 2003-09-29 05:25:00
[hometext] => a wee bit of philosophy and self-discovery
[bodytext] => Against the Odds I feel the morphing chaos That controls the data streams A thunderstorm in the synapses Giving brief flashes of awareness In the calm grey of my eyes Imaginative intuition of the id Reaching across the chasm To slap my impotent ego Into a mind-wiping epiphany That I am not a by-product To be secretly disposed of By clandestine social ignorance But that I am an uncanny masterpiece Perfectly flawed through Accidental bio-chemical experimentation My existence is a cosmic long shot Not to be taken for granted I must drive this bloody mass Like a personal juggernaut And avoid the peer pressure To fall in and behind On this conveyor belt highway That sits motionless and crowded With the congregated flock that refuses To entertain the concept of living [comments] => 3 [counter] => 213 [topic] => 21 [informant] => art1st [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 1 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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