BIO-CHIP Left to slip down the social stairway by ill-starred parents, the would-have-been college boy swims upstream in place with other starvlings, endurance scarred for single retirement near campus libraries, joining verse as solace and bleak testament of creation trashed. Here then reader and being of light, reality unmasked.

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