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He
had not, so the general consensus decreed,
Held
up his end of the bargain;
Custom
dictated that once one had received
If
not full abso..
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They’d
had him dead to rights for poisoning the well,
Least
wise as far as they reckoned,
His
fingerprints all over the pail
(Not
t..
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He
is unsure at this point if the soft pings and dings
Which
inflict themselves upon his ears
Are
courtesy of the wired-up grotesqueries
S..
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Our
Sweeney nurses his Falstaff,
Joining
his hail-and-well-met fellows in mirth
This
man of hearty life and laugh,
His
fingernails ri..
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Know
this--I am well acquainted with the wolf,
Well
versed in his ways, his demeanor:
His
dispassionate relentlessness,
His
pitiless foc..
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He'd lived in the remaining house on the little byway,The place and its existence somewhat accidentalAs it was built as the groundskeeper's cottageAcc..
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Step lively, now, as good news is not of a mindTo wait upon delay and ditheringNor to pay any heed to your day's peculiar graceThe ticket for your pro..
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There is a certain shock, not from the silence itselfBut of its revelations, the laying bareOf the utter superfluence of languageIn all which unfolds ..
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The truck was crushed and dentedAlmost beyond recognitionWhen the county boys reached the scene(Though, as one of the deputies remarked,Having seen th..
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There were a surfeit of itemsSufficient to raise eyebrows or cause commentAmong the few staid members of the Mulligan clan:The appearance of siblings ..
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