CURSED

This is a pun about an assumed curse on one's life.

                   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).