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Avoid Adapting Other People's Negative Views
by Sharon Dolin

after Epictetus


To gaze upon the fatal
without commiserating gloom:

what every friend should be—
not one who rends her coat of doom

nor one who lets her ankle rankle
nor her dogged love to the hounds.

Be the cat in catastrophe
who survives eight more dives.

Though in the clutch of damage
a dame must age,

in the crazy-quilt of guilt
it was never your fault.

In the company of morose
always pull out the rose.

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Avoid Adapting Other People's Negative Views- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More after Epictetus To gaze upon the fatal without commiserating gloom: what every friend should be— not one who rends her coat of doom nor one who lets her ankle rankle nor her dogged love to the hounds. ...