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An internal coffee break.

Step back. Look out of the loop.

Find myself falling forward. With an eye on the prize all the time.

While the grand prize is in my hands and before my eyes, and holding me all the time.

A coffee break to stare at the wall.

To lift these new beginnings into submissions.

The greatest composition of them all.

To submit to this young authors contest.

No. No.

Well, I'll send my piece in, but only after there's nothing left to lose,

and I despise their chintzy prize,

designed to make fake authors slobber,

and listless politicians speak well

of "the arts."

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~KafkA

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Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist, creator, and peaceful parent residing in Niigata City, Japan. Graham runs the "Voluntary Japan" online initiative with a presence here on Steem, as well as Facebook and Twitter. (Hit me up so I can stop talking about myself in the third person!)