CLASS EXIT All labors ignored, any talents deferred, opting for a technoid factory absurd, family departed for greener employment, friendships dissolved in beggars' embarrassment at social service caring, food, shelter, clothing councel experience sharing a sop against self-loathing at such abysmal loss of self-determination, cheap wine decanting the desperate sedation of another homeless worker cost accounted to death, ragged spirit crushed, internal weeping forever hushed. Earth embrace these tortured gnomes for having suffered and died to finally claim a home they cannot be denied.

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