One Eye Open

For those who are never asleep;
pity them!
for they have no rest,

for those who are never awake;
pity them!
for they know too little,

but for those who are neither nor;
pity them a thousand times more!
for theirs is a fate of eternal thought
forever in faith,
forever in flaw.


(circa Autumn 2002, date unknown)
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Word Of The Wolf today is supplant \suh-PLANT\,

transitive verb:
1. To take the place of (another), especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics; as, a rival supplants another.
2. To take the place of and serve as a substitute for.

"These dark days only see one evil supplanting another in my mind."

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Supplant derives from Latin supplantare, "to put one's foot under another, to throw down a person by tripping up his heels," from sub-, "under"+ plantare, "to stamp the ground with the foot," from planta, "the sole of the foot."