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I was shouted down –

Locked out and humiliated

I was smoked out –

Laughed at and intimidated

These feelings aren’t real, are they?

They’ll pass like the train

Which in dreams I’m forever running for

Forever missing

I was passed up –

Broke down and misunderstood

I was cast off –

Out-foxed and forgot about

This is false attention-seeking surely?

As invalid as the ticket

I presented on the train I just about made

Forever never there

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Written on a bus, late 2011