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To an Arrogant Young Man
Narcissus,
gazing in a forest pool,
knelt
on the moss to kiss his mirrored face
and
drowned in his own image's embrace,
a
fate befitting such a haughty fool
whom
you rival in cruelty, but who
was
twenty times more beautiful than you.
Timothy
Murphy
From
The Deed of Gift, Story Line Press,
©
1998. Reprinted by permission
of the author
and Story Line
Press, Ashland, Oregon.
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