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A PESSIMISTIC OPTIMIST
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A view on how life can let you down or lift byou up, its expectations.
*I am a pessimistic optimisist* *think the worst* *which it has never* *as yet occured,* *if it did I would not know* *so that is by all accounts* *my view* *is not absurd.* *You see I cannot afford* *a Mercedes* *the pessimistic voice bemoans* *but maybe a new car* *the optimist responds.* *Now if it were the otherway around* *I would often be* *let down,* *as life has taught me* *tread with care* *not all things are* *what they seem* *a swamps are all around.* *You tell me how many souls* *have overeached* *and been dragged* *into the ground.*

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