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			<title>A Brute of Taste</title>
			<description>You are the grapevine and I am the shearThe oak barrels shipped in from France are nearStanding in dazzling display</description>
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			<title>The Happy Docile Dead</title>
			<description>From up here on the port side viewYour villages seen from vantages newOf frivolous individuals bornTo graves at which their dreams are tornA marvelous machine powered by youDevoted compliance its batteries accrueTo feed the eyes and to blow the hornWhen glimpsed an act that is not of the normTransit..</description>
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			<title>Stinger</title>
			<description>Underneath the earthWaiting thereTrigger pointHidden lairLand mineWhere their men may strideHymenopteraOn the routeRelocateSchooled to bootIn lineWash away their prideIn the jungle heatShed the ruseAnimateLight the fuseThen flyFly and terrorizeAdd it to the listWork deducedMitigateSpread the useIn t..</description>
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			<title>Orchids</title>
			<description>Stirred no more by painter&amp;rsquo;s shifty brushIt is not with the paints as it is&amp;nbsp;With the slushBlended carnaria by ironshod ladleAbandoned Infant Sorrow inside of his cradleOur virtuous beauty, a caretaker lostHer serpent&amp;rsquo;s veil is torn away,&amp;nbsp;Forgotten in the frostThe Muse&amp;rsquo;s g..</description>
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			<title>The Pharmaceutical Sesquipedalian Procedure</title>
			<description>My dear, for you my scalpel singsIt pays to irrigateThe ear, open the floodgatesFor that which I have rendered numbEvery part, plane, and poreOh, my heart'sOrgan pipes resounding!The patient's form is blank no moreAnd here beside Diocletian panesMy sesquipedalian suture games..</description>
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			<title>Lipocanus Rex</title>
			<description>Perspiring along ceramic like a sweet morning dew Perfidious desires for one so delectable as youAt the tip of the knife where the sunlight reflects An open iris cleansed of all assumptions And all of its effects Just beyond reach of all human handsThe atom leash straining at all its c..</description>
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			<title>64 dB of Gastric Ruin</title>
			<description>Lackadasical bovinary cooking coddleA ransacking of the olfactory cavitiesEuthanizedCauterizedAn oilseed dish pulverized and granulizedHeterotrophic morphology organized and chromatizedIgEImmunic biological defense system aberrantBasophil projectileProteins unleashed, foreign pat..</description>
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			<title>Chalice of Tides</title>
			<description>A tower at the crown of the world, burning candles, shining brightInside, the warden's lips you kiss, dark shadows in the restless nightPaper lanterns and the full moonlight, new roads toward tomorrow pavedA rusted sword in a dusty sheathe, a gravestone erected, blessed, engravedCoital throes of dar..</description>
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			<title>Cryptid</title>
			<description>A grandiose&amp;nbsp;mythological hominidWho stands at pointed-eared attention?Who rocks the sleeping baby's cradleWhen the term &quot;cryptid&quot; is mentioned?The experts may have tracked its movementIts dreadful slumbers in hibernationA nocturnal presence, a psychic omniscienceWitness account, or just halluci..</description>
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			<title>Petrarchan sonnet</title>
			<description>Wordsworth! Instill in me your Holy powerHumanities have need of me - now and againIn small bouts of random dharmic zenThey sweeten up a consomme left curdling and sourThanks to longanimity there's reason for us to glower'Cos they're still selfish men, to be pampered and thenRazed by a playpen of bu..</description>
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			<title>The Bleeder's Bib</title>
			<description>Composite molded frontal cutterLaser sighted microwave emitterSerrated linear tendon grinderLatex mounted pressurizerInvasive buccal space throat cultureDecontaminated costumed condescenderConnoiseur of palates both hard and tenderSalivary moisture droning drainerPrematurely erupted haggard masticat..</description>
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