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In praise of failure

In praise of failure

With apologies to Walt

Annie Mueller
Apr 12, 2022
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I sing the failure inevitable
The armies of those who risk support me and I support them,
They will not let me off till I charge into it, whatever it is, try,
And fall on my face and blame everything and everyone and most of all myself. 

Was it doubted that those who punish themselves for striving feed on self-hatred?
The striving can be for anything (…

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