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    Strange Love

    There once was a lady, hailing from the circus

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    Doug Langille

    Doug Langille

    hack writer & shameless technophile

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    Strange Love

    There once was a lady, hailing from the circus
    Whose beard was so long, she would curse it
    But there was something about her
    I was smitten, her lover
    I’d braid it but her girth made me nervous

    Photo by ‘Playingwithbrushes’

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    Tags: grounded, intimacy, poetry, wit

    Published: June 27, 2014

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