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Where do you see yourself in the future?
I see myself not being asked this question
as a placeholder for conversation.
Do not place me in a hold.
I am not your holding pattern.
I am not your in between joints
from one banality to the next.
Why not ask me:
Where do you see place in the future?
Or best yet:
Where do you hold
yourself in the place of a future?