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Collier

October 10, 2017 by administrator

There once was a person named Schorr, Who thought that she’d been here before. So she called up a clerk And without too much work Got a file on the Schorrs of yore. While reading the file in her parlor, She discovered another Schorr, Collier, Whose identity it said could be easily had Through a […]

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Lament for the Makers

April 7, 2017 by administrator

Lament for the Makers

I who was full of health and gladness, Am troubled now with great sickness, And feebled with infirmity— Fear of death unsettles me. Our pleasure here is all vain glory, This false world is transitory, The flesh is porous, and Fate is sly— Fear of death unsettles me. The state of man does change and […]

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