Struggling up this hill challenges my age

but poses no problem for my insubstantial companion

he can even climb it lying down!

no aching joints or defiant lungs in his fleshless and boneless body

he WOULD find it easy!

that flat voiceless negative of me

since it is I who am obliged to keep him in tow!

and despite the fact that at present he weighs nothing at all

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I thought about a thought,

a thought completely different

to the thought that I had been thinking about a moment ago,

but then, I thought, why am I thinking about thoughts like that!?

I thought that I knew better than to be thinking about thoughts like that!

so, I thought that I will try not to think about that thought

that I should not have been thinking about

I thought that ...

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Pack horsed, sledge packed and heaved many greatly gruelling miles

and brave heartedly packed with national pride

of those venturing into vast empty regions

sub zero kingdoms of frozen sea

to be valiantly, and stubbornly determined to plant the flag

even prepared to be sacrificed to the histories of great losses

forever remembered aftermaths of failure.

A chilli...

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