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To be the outsider

Larry Lowry 1959 (Pryor)

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To be the outsider. Ive never felt welcome where i go. No one talks to me so i rarely hear a human voice. Life  is quiet except machines groaning as they do their task.  I have never invited to a wedding so i never had a chance to be best man.  I go to the store and say hello to everyone. Some smile like their happy that someone noticed them. Spending hours playing a videogame and no one complaining i play too much. What are we becoming? Will all of us become the one not invited? The stranger no one recalls?

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Isolation is the virus but what happens with people being in isolation? People going insane?

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Written on September 15, 2021

Submitted by Lowlarr on September 16, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme A
Characters 513
Words 101
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
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