if i were paid for thinking, i'd be rich by now

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A penny for your thoughts
and a quarter just to keep them.
It's so taxing when you know
that your words might be condemned.
And if you say them anyway,
you might just speak too loud.
And everyone might leave you,
a stranger in the crowd.

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