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From: houts@reed.UUCP (Bill Dark)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Covich
Message-ID: <883@reed.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 17:01:28 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  1 17:01:28 1985
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You are a boiled potato       
in the Salad of Life,
pepperless and plain.
You don't even merit the loathing
commanded by spinach and yams,
and your words thud and roll through my head
like cabbages dropped from a bunk bed.

You are:
         Kleenex used,
         coffee spilled,
         a tennis shoe lost

Pity!
A tasteless crumb floating
in an otherwise excellent soup.