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+          <a href="poems/shades-of-status-quo.html">Shades of status quo</a>
+          <span class="date">[2024-12-20]</span>
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           <a href="poems/polar-bliss.html">Polar bliss</a>
           <span class="date">[2023-04-09]</span>
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+      <div class="title">Shades of status quo <span class="date">[2024-12-20]</span></div>
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+        <p>
+            Status quo is a reminder;<br />
+            A good remainder that is.
+        </p>
+
+        <p>
+            That they are boundaries;<br />
+            which are meant to be broken apart.
+        </p>
+
+        <p>
+            Apart them to show you;<br />
+            it is one of the revealing features<br />
+            of the universe.
+        </p>
+
+        <p>
+            No stop there;<br />
+            This kind is particularly special.<br />
+            When you are to reach apart,<br />
+            the special reveals nothing than;<br />
+            Those are set by our ancestors for the human kind,<br />
+            To prove that we can go beyond whence they did.
+        </p>
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+            And forth goes the goodness;<br />
+            to make them ancestors proud in the heavens.
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