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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.
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