{"id":8892,"date":"2026-01-28T12:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=8892"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:24:22","slug":"poem-who-is-flailing-as-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/28\/poem-who-is-flailing-as-a-human\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Who is Flailing as a Human?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suspect that “winning” our humanity has far less to do with “winning” than simply responding to inhumanity with humanity and letting go of the outcome. As aptly put by Albert Schweitzer:\u00a0“Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.”<\/p>\n

Who is Flailing as a Human?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

They loathed
\nThat suffocatingly small
\nCoroner
\nOf their life
\nWhere those who no you
\nCould careless
\nAs cool and cruel
\nSeaming awe the same
\nKnot!
\nLiving in a flog
\nUnable to pass
\nAnd the E\u2019s
\nAs batting a lash
\nWithout adieu
\nOr quiet unbelievably
\nEven less class
\nIn vane looks
\nAt the lessor
\nOf too evils
\nI\u2018s piercing
\nLike stuck pigs
\nWho can
\nLive on
\nThe lowest forum of spam
\n\u00ae\u00ae\u00ae\u00ae\u00ae\u00ae\u00ae!!!
\nIs there a groan up
\nIn such plays
\nAnd what kind
\nOf choices
\nDoes won halve
\nAs taken
\nBuy the lyin\u2019s share
\nEvery won
\nA victim
\nAs caste
\nA side
\nAnd what passably might be
\nWhat is
\nWholly
\nTheir lessen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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