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Risk
by Alan Cook
Friday, May 28, 2010
Rated "G" by the Author.

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Pity the timid soul

who hides in a hole.

He will never see

VICTORY.

True, he may never taste defeat.

If you don't compete

you can't be beat.

Still, isn't it better to strive for a worthy cause

and fail,

than to spend your life

sorting your mail?

Alan Cook, Mystery and walking writer

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Reviewed by Regis Schilken	2/17/2011

If you don't compete you can't be beat. I'm afraid that most of my competition has left me behind, but I do my best to compete! I truly enjoy our poems. rege




Reviewed by jude forese	5/28/2010

especially is its all junk mail ...

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