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My weary legs slowly plod the ploughmans brain
and, with buttercup boots destroy
watercoloured lives by consciencebristled brush
excrete: orifice bespectacled;
round and plump.
Eggshell cooks in harmony drape
meaty fumble pies: legstuff lumps in toiletroll
formations fly the presidential buildings by.
Rainbow spattered, shadowed eyes
drain out the crimson shining pates
incarnadine with age do stain;
bloody, round and plump.
As runny noses down the window drip
and permeate the sill,
Freedom fights a poor man's might
and hold the sun in flight
and sees the sky roll by;
much fingered,
round and plump.

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