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Get In Line

By Gerard DiLeoPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Top Story - January 2024
Cuttin' in Line

Incongruities, deceptive

Unite unseen

In between

But most come out defective

.

Of the countless thousands and millions

Of all the trials and rigors

Running in denial with scissors

A single mote wafts into the pavilion

.

The lottery player Sisyphus

Still must fight uphill

To survive the right anthill

And gain purchase with the rest of us

.

Extinction may be forever

But there's always a face

Ready to take the place

Of someone proven less clever

.

There will always be another Elvis

Announced, leaving the building

Wearing caped, accoutered gilding

That cannot save, from themselves, the feckless

.

Everyone's in the continuum

We're all in line

One at a time

But new cheaters'll always cut in

.

As the world continues revolving

Some people stay on with rotation

But others fall off from negation

Life's Tetris continues evolving

.

So never say never in reflection

To be

Or not to be

You have no special protection

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About the Creator

Gerard DiLeo

Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!

Make me rich! https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/

My substrack at https://substack.com/@drdileo

[email protected]

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  • Test2 years ago

    Phenomenal work! Keep the excellence going—congrats!

  • Daphsam2 years ago

    Congratulations on your top story. 

  • Anna2 years ago

    congratulate

  • Doc Sherwood2 years ago

    Congratulations on Top Story, well deserved!

  • Back to say congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊

  • Cathy holmes2 years ago

    This is fabulous. Congrats on the TS.

  • Kendall Defoe 2 years ago

    Excellent Top...Poem! And you might like this: https://www.webarnes.ca/2009/08/the-next-stage-of-evolution/

  • JBaz2 years ago

    So many good lines that ring true. Congratulations

  • Thanks, vocal.media, for this Top Story label.

  • Lamar Wiggins2 years ago

    Wow! What more can be said about this grounded in reality stream of words. Well done indeed, Gerald.

  • Rachel Deeming2 years ago

    Not sure how I missed this one, Gerard. Thanks to Doc Sherwood on the Raise Your Voice thread for sending me here. Respect his opinion enormously and he has waxed lyrical about this so had to check it out. Agree with everything he said.

  • "Life's Tetris continues evolving". I really loved this line. It's soooo deep and true! Fantastic poem!

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