The Cliffs of Mistake

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To know you're making a mistake asyou make it, yet not be able to stop,is to step off a cliff, expecting to scramblebackward and up through the air to standon the outcrop you stepped from,even though it can't unhappen as youbackpeddle wildly with the second step,looking far, far below onto the moraineof pain you anticipate later, which is nowonly the shock of recognizing the resultthere's no leaping back from.Oh God, and this is only a metaphor.Might this be what metaphors are for?To say what it's like before you hit what it is.

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