student poem: “the orange scarf”

I think this student is rather troubled…

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THE ORANGE SCARF

Wintertime brings two types of people—
those who wear the orange scarf
and those who deny ever having owned it.

People who say that they own
the orange scarf but are not wearing it
and people that tell you that the

orange scarf is currently on loan,
and people who say that they owned
the orange scarf at one point

but traded it for multicolored earmuffs
or something like that are fibbing.
There have been no loans

or trades, just as amoebas, vile creatures
that they are, never have parades
nor are their bodies supported by bones.

Show me an amoeba wearing the orange
scarf, however, and I will show you a man
who has learned to be content with his life.

Also, the U.S. should get its troops out of Iraq.
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