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Oh mr. Thoreau →

What’s that you say, #haiku?

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Mary Beth Frezon

suffer fools gladly?
tolerate or see the joke
present in us all.

if you don’t know ask
or keep your protests for one
who will suffer fools

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