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General Advice to Miscreants
Split the hair - when you face the music -
Blow after blow - will roll aside - Violence dealt to the batted belfry Spent on your hair and not your hide. Loose the flood - like a snake oil seller - Gush after gush, and swear it’s true - Cro-Magnon creditors! Credulous cretins! You’ll escape yet from the peer review. August 2005
From the Daily Whale.
Parody of
“Split the Lark” by
Emily Dickinson,
Johnson number 861, Franklin number 905.
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