The Harmless Lifeless Man in the Strawberry Field

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He had a propensity to always yield

This man who now ventures aimlessly into the strawberry field 

For all of it happened out of the fact how

twas so that

his heart was never filled.


With this now known, a narrative I'll build

He, in the fields, tilled

lands meant for seeds

that met the needs

of those yearning totally for epic destruction

To understand this, you must suffer a reconstruction

of the inward imploding structure that was his mind.


Outwardly, he was so kind

like a painting he saw

by an 11 year old

in a hospital.

It featured a man smiling

deposited over top hundreds of colorful right triangles, riling

the mind to madness

as the man in front faked away his sadness.


For he was a faker, you must see

smirking with a charming audacity

Split faced he was

with crooked jagged lines down the middle

like a cubist Picasso painting of a fiddle.

From the face, games like songs he played

from the same damned mouth from which he prayed.


Under the painting was the young child's quote

describing her intricate triangle bomb

It said, "Here is a split faced man.

He may be evil but he's also calm."

That, in all, was the painting in full

of the evil man who still calmly followed the rules.


That painting which the strawberry man thought of

as he harvested from the field lots of

strawberries

that he didn't even eat anyhow.


I suppose that was the evilest act

of this villainous man of chronic calm.

He had harvested a momentous gift of strawberries intact

just to release them all

to nothingness.

Twas incredulous.


But how could you hate him, anyhow?

His insistence on inaction wasn't importunate

For matters for which he was surely needed he was never late


He was just a harmless

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