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title: Susceptible
week: 16
date: 2025-04-22
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you are not immune,\
your blind spots will prevail -\
the evil's out to get us,\
hook, thorn, lie and trail
'I'm not the problem,' you say with pride,\
to anyone who listens -\
but while you turn your back to them,\
they're pulling out munitions
'I don't think there's an issue,'\
you declare without a search -\
it's easy to miss the war\
from up there on that perch
'these people just complain too much,'\
you moan and whinge and spout -\
how lucky you are to live a life\
with little to grumble about
'supports are good, I guess,\
but some people are just bludging,'\
when all this push comes to shove,\
it's you that we'll be judging
look within, think for yourself,\
you've been far too susceptible\
in ignorance you may feel bliss,\
but disregard proves unacceptable
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Dressed up nice, but why I'm unsure\
To mourn a man I met not knew\
Yet I'll attend and act mature\
And show grief even if untrue
Sitting worried how it appears\
Given the lack of woe I've shown\
I see her there, eyes full of tears\
Such I feel welling in my own\
In this I discover new fears\
Of a world where I'm not alone
An effect which I was aware\
Yet for myself was skeptical\
In this bizarre awkward affair\
I've found myself susceptible