Benevolent Insanity

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I think I’d like to spend my final years
growing a long white beard, wearing a
simple brown robe with a hemp rope belt
and dirty sandals.

I’d like to find a large park
somewhere in a massive metropolis
(preferably with perennial warmth),
where I can spend my days running
around spouting off philosophical and
spiritual sounding gibberish.

If only the powers that be didn’t
“adjust” their less well adjusted citizens with
batons, pepper spray, and long stays
in lonely but well padded institutions.

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