Stoics
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The ancient trees teach manliness, the way
It lives and means. Sequoia and yew
And cypress show rigidity but sway
Enough. They say their roots and wood outgrew
Their deaths with dogged grit. Sequoia
Stretched upward, Burg Khalifas of the world
Before man dreamed of paranoia
In Freud’s reduction. Cypresses unfurled
Longevity in stubbornness but stretched
Towards wide horizons. Pines and stems grew gnarled
