Fools

by Thomas Redoubt

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All men are fools –

some now, some then,

some always.

To the shame of all,

it is at this singular touching point

of their respective societal spheres

that women

have achieved

complete equality with men.

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Thomas Redoubt

Thomas Redoubt is from Freedom, Pennsylvania, a small town on the Ohio River north-west of Pittsburgh and now lives in Allison Park, Pennsylvania. He was trained in science and law spent the first half of his non-literary career as a materials science researcher and the second half as a lawyer and law school adjunct professor. Redoubt has a passion for writing poetry and sees poetry as the epitome of one person to communicate his/her thoughts and feelings to another.