malfunctioned sympathy

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uninterestingly,
he hangs himself in the name
of the greater good

the boy too
monotonous to have even
a proper name

simply known for written
poems too depressing to
attract the eye

and a stale personality:
why he stitched his lips
with silver threads

"we'll miss him,"
we shall all claim, despite
never having known

he'll be the new fad
for a little over a week, max
till no one gives a fuck

and by the second week
we'll be giggling again;
no guilt nor remorse

just a distanced memory
of the unspirited boy
who just simply was

how uninteresting...

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