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David Raffin (postHumorist, poet, Metaphysicist)
(*Metaphysics : Branch of philosophy dealing with first principles: abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.)

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Trolls never get my goat

January 5, 2014 David Raffin My books Writing

Life is rough / if you are a Billy Goat / and you are gruff. Then you meet a troll under a bridge / and enough is enough / for you are king of the ridge.

 

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