The Neatest Trick                                              


            One may quibble
            But the second neatest trick
            Appears to be that suffering
            Is something we can’t do without,
            A foretaste, as it were, of inescapable
            Demise,
            The necessary price of joy
 
            There’s no dispute, however,
            That the neatest one of all
            Has been to make us think
            That we are most alive and well
            When others take the
            Fall


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            Emanuel E. García, Sinking In, One Hundred Poems2013

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