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The poetic city: “Notes to Self”

Feb 08, 2021 • Creative Writing

This is a photograph taken by Brandon Robert during the Krewe of Boheme’s Soaring Twenties Parade

 
 
Notes to Self
 
Be what you are,
Not what you’re not.
 
Allow yourself the latitude
To appreciate your limits. 
 
And when the opportunity 
To do some good presents itself, 
 
Seize it!

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