I am a man of rags.
\nI will not improve.
\nMy thoughts are famished rags
\nflapping on a paling.<\/p>\n
I will not improve
\nor be educated
\nout of my stew.
\nI am for always failing.<\/p>\n
My lack of care
\ngives me small freedom,
\nand who comes near
\nalso leaves quickly.<\/p>\n
I would not join a greater throng
\nto protest what always must stand.
\nI would not be shot, or hung
\nupon a rootless tree.<\/p>\n
Let them man a barricade,
\nred kerchiefs about their necks.
\nI am lumpen, blowing in a gale,
\ndisorganised by necessity.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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