The Mistake With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day beforehand each mistake leads back to something worse And every nuance of your hypocrisy Towards yourself, and every excuse Stands solidly on the perspective lines And there is perfect visibility. What an enlightenment. The colonnade Rolls past on either side. You needn't move. The statues of your errors brush your sleeve. You watch the tale turn back — and you're dismayed. And this dismay at this, this big mistakes made worse by the sight of all those who Knew all along where these mistakes would lead — Those frozen friends who watched the crisis

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