<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Beat the Beak, a&nbsp;Poem]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">It’s so hard, to just remain, a mere observer, to the things, the events that are, happening, all around us, isn’t it??? Translated…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Stacking the Mouth onto the Faces</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Broken Up</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>The Torn Lines of Lonely</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">how callous we all become, NOT my comic&#8230;<img src="https://lifetheobstaclecourse.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/32b3b-bystandereffect.jpg" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>With the Words, the Phrases, Accumulating</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Those Small Portions of Silence</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Gathered into Bundles</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Looking at the Violence that Got Started in the Distance</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Passing Through Before Our Eyes</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>Feeling Someone Else’s Aches and Pains</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><em>But, there’s, No On Switch</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So, there’s, that scent of wanting to just stand by and watch, but the narrator is still, pulled, into the conflicts, whether or not s/he is willing in participating or not, and that, is how sometimes things go, we may NOT want to get involved in certain situations, but, we are, a PART of it already, and, there’s, NO way O-U-T!</p>
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