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Sonnets From Other Lives: Sam

People used to call him a go-getter.
So he went & got—grasping for something
more—something bigger—something better.
His life personified The American Dream—
the biggering-- the bettering--the owning.
He competed--powered through adversity--
franchised his inspirations--cloning
ideas into strip-malled ubiquity.
He had it all they said. Then the forgetting
started. He forgot that rules applied
to him. He forgot names. He was getting
lost. He didn’t know that deep inside,
his brain was disassembling like sieve.
Eventually he just forgot to live.