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# Subtle Variations
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- Published: 2024-03-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Inevitable said to Preordained: beg pardon, but we're not the same at all. Though this may color our relations strained, you prophesy, preparing for the fall, where's I am more so focused on effect, the cause but an a...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Inevitable said to Preordained:  
beg pardon, but we're not the same at all.  
Though this may color our relations strained,  
you prophesy, preparing for the fall,  
where's I am more so focused on effect,  
the cause but an assumption in my work,  
whose output is about as you'd expect,  
and worthy of an understanding smirk,  
that, rather than a shaking, angry fist.

Here Preordained objected with this point:  
(in truth she could have given a whole list)  
Inevitable, your nose out of joint.  
Our means may differ, but our goals the same.  
Attempt, when something happens, to lay blame.