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Requisite recertification (for us) to remain...

as residents at Highland Manor Apartment
for the remainder of two thousand and six
and part way thru two thousand seven.

Linkedin with benefiting from low rent
courtesy Housing and Urban Development
every tenant who signs the lease
to occupy an efficiency,
or one or two bedroom apartment
and benefit fro adjusted monthly
at Highland Manor Apartments
needs to comply
filling out sheaf of documentation
appended with signature(s)
incumbent upon he/she,
him/her, his/hers, et cetera

STAGES

STAGES

In life, when young, one starts as an apprentice
Seeing some things from another’s point of view
About the wider world, learning a little more
But like a small boat, keeps close to the shore
Yet curiosity and motivation clearly to the fore
While getting a first real glimpse at what is true
But maintaining focus can say goodbye to bliss

As one among countless billions of homo sapiens, sapiens

I cannot escape being hashtagged
as part and parcel of a cancerous blight,

nevertheless yours truly well molded into a fungi
able, eager, ready and willing to delight

a bipedal hominid when
back in the day as a member
of Single Book-lovers
dreading being locked
into subjecting myself to "blind dates"
to advance along 
the analogous game of Life
prone to experience panic attacks,

anthropomorphization and personification considered flattery

for all creatures great and small
wise and wonderful

which harmless trailing appellations
courtesy anointed survival of the fittest

places Homo sapiens,
sapiens on the highest rung of a pedestal,
where said arrogant species and genus
supposedly self decreed supremacy
self serving as thee bonafide

electric kool and the gang
deoxyribonucleic acid aid test,

and figurative benchmark
against which other animals