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[aid] => mick
[title] => The Coward
[time] => 2005-07-14 10:08:05
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[bodytext] => A coward tells lies To quickly summarize And to gain acceptance Of outright pestilence He doesn’t come right out and say We’re going to do it my way Instead he uses tricks And so suffers ticks But if the speech is short Then his voice will not distort And his audience will believe That he would never deceive And so the coward does hide Within the human tide At least for a time He’ll distract you with dime But forever is far to long For a lie to carry this throng And so in the end Word he’ll send In explanation of his actions And his dubious distractions To admit what he’s done So his life you won’t shun The lesson he didn’t learn For which all men yearn Is that honesty carries While lies do burry [comments] => 0 [counter] => 172 [topic] => 31 [informant] => Wannabe [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => StoryPoetry )
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