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Rated: E · Poetry · None · #2349906

funny how ordinary things can harbor truth

socks

should be kept
in tidy drawers
and mated with an-
other for life

red with fred
and blue with you
never mix black
with brown or (
shudder
) white

mis-
cege
nation's
proscribe by unwrit-
ten
tribal laws

besides
what would
the neighbors
think
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