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Those who are outstanding

strive for greatness. 

Division 

is matched with a degree of recklessness or foolishness 

that is marked by worthless clumsy speech. 

The ‘self’ proceeds innately – 

the target is the journey 

modelling observation, views and perceptions 

manifesting solutions. 

Superb and praiseworthy hopes and longings 

are important and serious. 

Things uniquely measuring foolishness include 

being mute at any time it is necessary to be heard. 

While journeying in accord with model principles, 

provide, tend to, know, contemplate and see solutions. 

It is befitting for a superlative person 

to strive for the marvellous. 

Certain specialists seek the sea – 

measuring distances or weights – 

and the ‘self’ separates days and times of life. 

One’s ‘self’ introduces principles – 

rankings, manners and paradigms – 

that can hurt or damage the mind 

by way of misleading infatuations 

in which the individual 

believes they permit and allow deliverance. 

“I praise”, lofty hopes, being vexed, the secretive and peculiar … 

thus journey all who are foolish and fatuous – 

constantly changing, buying and setting appointments. 

According to the inner ‘self’ – 

the ‘me’ – 

a principled journey is known 

to be the proper solution.

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Douglas Colston – who finds himself approaching his mid-50s and living at the Sunshine Coast in Australia – has played in Ska bands, picked up university degrees, supported his parents during terminal illnesses, married his love, fathered two great children, had his inheritance embezzled, transitioned into Counselling as a vocation and experienced chronic mental and physical illnesses consequential to workplace harassment. Now, among other things, he is pursuing a PhD. As for his publishing history throughout 2022, his fiction, nonfiction and poetry has been published in traditional and online anthologies and journals including: POETiCA REViEW; Otherwise Engaged Literary and Arts Journal; Written Tales; Inlandia; The Graveyard Zine; The Antonym; Rue Scribe; Mercury Retrograde; The Seattle Star; Revue {R}évolution; Impspired; Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts; New Note Poetry; Red Door Magazine; and New World Writing.