Sound Bites: May 10,2024 Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

If true
that old age
is but a bad habit …
what can youth become

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Divorcing passion
from intellect
Two orphans
created
Homeless together
— inside of one soul

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If you want
to be free
First
be a prisoner
A captive
of prescience
An inmate
— of self

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Contradiction …
a privilege of freedom

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Knowledge is a prison
— and freedom its bars

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The pedantic
philosopher
Indistinguishable
— from the fool

(Dreamsleep: May,2024)