CURSED

                   CURSED

For time to smack one in the face
         and catch him in his prime unfair,
He must be in the human race
         and cursed like me -- beyond repair.

What e’er he does is but for naught
         for all mistakes he makes are caught.
The gains he thinks are his at last
         shall not be there; the die is cast.

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Written in the "Rispetto" style: 
         2 quatrains -- 1st abab; 2nd ccdd;
         iambic tetrameter (4 feet).