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My Office Chair

There is some magic in my office chair

It gives me rides here and there

Liberating me from the daily stress

It best knows how to take care.

 

Although it looks like dilapidated

Its current shape is much anticipated

Yet it offers the best of comfort,

And all my worries are emancipated.

 

This chair has been a hot seat in the past

This chair can narrate the tales ver...

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Dexteram Patris

Dexteram Patris

Uncomfortable
seeing him that way,
and she,
ever supportive,
gently touching
his arm
for reassurance

but there is a failing,
something not the same,
although in looks
we are so similar.

The Prodigal returns
and sees his father,
straight of back
and stern of countenance,
falling to pieces.

The once proud frame -
busted

and she,
as beautiful as always,
...

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