“The Wise Old Saying” / Memorable Fancies #1494

[“Other sayings drive me into their deserted rooms.” – Thomas Bernhard]

I remember a wise old saying, how it pleased me once. But a cliché, now, mouthed to death. No one remembers how fresh it once was, how doomed.      <END>

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