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A MISFIT.
O Lord, take me out of this! I do not fit! My body does not suit my mind, My brain is weak in the knees and blind, My clothes are not what I want to find— Not one bit! My house is not the house I like— Not one bit! My church is built so loose and thin That ten fall out where one falls in; My creed is buttoned with a pin— It does not fit! The school I went to wasn’t right— Not one bit! The education given me Was meant for the community, And my poor head works differently— It does not fit! I try to move and find I can’t— Not one bit! Things that were given me to stay Are mostly lost and blown away, And what I have to use to-day— It does not fit! What I was taught I cannot do— Not one bit! And what I do I was not taught And what I find I have not sought; I never say the thing I ought— It does not fit! I have not meant to be like this— Not one bit! But in the puzzle and the strife I fail my friend and pain my wife; Oh, how it hurts to have a life That does not fit!
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