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Blank Slate: Is fate conspiring against me? Or do I conspire against myself? Who is to blame?
Posted by Douglas, Mar 30, 2010. 399 views. ID = 3414
 
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Blank Slate

Posted by Douglas, Mar 30, 2010. 399 views. ID = 3414
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Were this, my mind, a blank and open slate
On which could freely scribe the hand of Fate,
Then he, it seems, is filled with cruel hate,
And dreadful thirsts, too terrible to sate.
Perhaps instead, Fate's not the one to blame,
And cleanest slates are black and filled with shame.


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