by Charles Linart

Created on: November 12, 2009

That old verse about the paths "diverging in a wood"

gets quoted far more than it should.

I have seen bum-kissing valedictorians spout it from the podium

at graduation after graduation.

They heard it in English class after English class,

and it stuck.

I have seen CEOs exhort,

trying to kid us.

They took the path most taken -

play politics and work your way up the corporate ladder.

What do they know about the path less taken?

I have never seen a hobo begging for change

quote those words.

I have never heard a bohemian singer sing them.

I have never quoted them myself

because, ironically,

they are so overused.

What good is the path less travelled if

all the goodie-goodies take it?

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