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  • Writer's pictureJamie McCarthy

Refuse to Be Cut Down to Size.

13th August 2020

My friend Tammy Arjona reposted these words I’d posted on 11th August 2015.

I’d forgotten about them.

Refuse to be cut down to size

Refuse to have your irregular edges shaved off So you can be packaged with minimum fuss And stacked neatly on the shelves Make your genus unpromotable Thorny and gorgeous Develop the kind of beauty That will not be harvested, sold and consumed Live

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