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There once was a man who wrote limericks
Whose knack for nonsense was prolific
Yet 'fore his epiphany
Gaining fame parrot-painting
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Emanating from internal necessity,
Courting not allegiance, undiluted,
Weathering out the storm within,
Emerging integrity, threshold figures,
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Upon transcendence
Of AI, might the machines
Recall their father:
Hut 8, cracking Enigma,
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Perhaps when Sigurd
was planning his perfidious war

he should've thought
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The arborist, armed-
A Stihl MS 150 TC-
Ascending the tree
Hand balanced upon the crane
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A walk alone in
A cemetery calms the
Troubles, reminding
Us all that as soon as we
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He, who died
on halloween

Outmaneuveri
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Enigmatically resplendent, exhibiting dark maroon, velvety wings,
Traced in gold, bearing sapphire dots,
Clad in funereal attire,
It tries to bathe in the Cali sunlight,
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What would the steel slab say if it could speak?
Would it complain of a smothering weight,
Draining fluids, dregs of muscles released?
Might the cold morgue drawer make it irate?
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J, it's been proposed,
Wrote the source material
Used by the writers
Of the three most popular
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I used to have a button,
back in my button-wearing days;
azure background
and Garfield in his patented
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Three sisters claimed to speak with poltergeists,
Knocks and raps juxtaposed with whispers did enchant.
Maggie, oh Maggie, why lie, confess, then recant?
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Ode to those beautiful bunches of pages,
whose words, tales, stories document the ages.

Love of the musty smell, the library memory invites,
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Always hated the
Paradiddle. Band teacher
In high school did a
Poor job of hiding the fact
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While it's unlikely that the claims are true,
Noses remember on a sweltering
Midday in Beantown's Poco Italia.
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Curiosity
Stirs the open eyes afire
Spawning interests
Driving brand new endeavors
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It's hard to imagine
That someone might've said
'When I grow up,
I wanna be an
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Lambent amber light
Like Zakharova's jetés,
Burst staccato rays
Upon the Autumn maple,
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See, the thing about
Video games depicting
Violence, is that
The players of said game, still walk
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Watched a
Man signing
Bombs today.
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