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Haiku – Young Man

Jan25

 

 

 

Where’s the young man gone
Who lived in mirrors so long?
Putting old masks on.

Published online in The Asses of Parnassus, 11 January 2018

What is the attraction of religion, after all, except a desperate attempt to avoid thinking about one’s annihilation in death?

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