The View From the Gutter

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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we live in the gutter

the place where all that is rotten

and smelly goes

Gehenna

The garbage dump

Of emotions and thoughts

Place where hopes and dreams

Are fouled

We are all there

In one way or another

One moment or another

And yet

Somewhere up there

Out there

The stars sparkle

The beacons of heaven

Calling us

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