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Collected Item: “This is Not a Story Of Hope”

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This is Not a Story Of Hope

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TEXT

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'Tis not a story of hope/
'Tis not a story of fear/
But harken ye this candid tale/
Of what transpired here/

In the year of twenty twenty/
In the fairest, Lincoln green/
I found a special love of/
The unsightly and unseen/

Nay, not quite an animal/
Nay, not even plant/
But decomposing both/
The fungi doth enchant/

Enraptured thus/
I took the plunge/
And threw myself/
Betwixt two suns/

One of light/
That carried me/
And one of shade/
That buried me/

So out I came/
From times so crude/
The viral curse/
My life unglued.

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mushrooms, fungi, newfound hobby, foraging

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Anon Ymous

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2021-02-29T00:00:00-12:00
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