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Poem on the Theme of MistakeThis was a day peace prizes would anticipateSit back wee lads and hear what doth obliterate As anxious antagonists' a-holes alliterated, All mitigated gall motioned to unmitigate it Three were put to death, All under age eighteen In Florida a great debate: Is the electric chair too mean? Better to inject them. Silent and unseen. Priests reciting flagellated Buddhist hymns-- denial on the sly Do hypocritic stenches waft too thickly when they fry? And military bases are the basis for a plan To kill off all the poor youth not yet thrown into the can Jerry Brown in Oakland says he'll do it for the kids, A military school, one-point-five million in the bids Conservative or radical -- Grade 7 through grade 12? Seems the mad hatter's flipped them lids! As anxious antagonistic a-holes deliberated, Bulimic mystics vomiting on Persian rugs prognosticated Whose split infinitives left tattered in the loss unfounded evidently . . . nothing? No metaphor interposes to indict the sage whom links what is not possible and licks at the front page indiscriminately fashionable, mesmerized by number games, he strikes a match on microfiche as his teeth burst into flames Three children died last night on death row And today, which Nobel laureate will step forward to accept the quid pro quo? |