#self denail

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active anonymity

I count the cost

of being common,

playing plain,

pretending-

coin and cash

and calculation

to be perceived a pleb

I pay my tax

to remain invisible

in flesh and fantasies

and dreams deferred

safe in the sanctuary of the sane,

a place I pay to belong,

I participate in the pageantry

and hide myself

in the masses