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Compliments of the Season

By colloquia

Sun, 20 Nov 2011
  • 199 reads
 

Here they are together again,
Nobody under thirty,
Prowling around the fancy food
With gobbling Uncle Bertie.

Round and round the Christmas tree,
Everyone so refined,
Everyone playing pretty please
And stabbing you from behind.

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