Fame is a fickle food

(thing) by fustflum (5.6 mon) Tue Jun 06 2000 at 5:26:33 
Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
The second time is set.

Whose crumbs the crows inspect
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the Famer's Corn--
Men eat of it and die.

--Emily Dickinson
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