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<a href='nutritious.php?PHPSESSID=4ff934d02554922c0d45db9530ba5b8b'>nutritious</a><BR>
<a href='archives.php?PHPSESSID=4ff934d02554922c0d45db9530ba5b8b'>archives</a><BR>do not walk bare on ashes;
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never, as in not ever,
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as in do not walk with bare feet over ashes.
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i could tell you why, but
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does that really matter?
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you're just a stupid kid, and
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i, i, i, apparently stutter, but i
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also know that clean feet run fleets, and
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loose lips sink ships, and
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walking on ashes is nothing like
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walking on sunshine,
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the latter leaving nothing more
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than a catchy tune trapped amidst
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the undulations of soft, spongy tissue
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better known in english as "the brain,"
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while the former leaves mounds of
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black soot imbedded firmly between
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the upper skin of toes and
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the lower calcification of nails,
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immune to the scrubbings,
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pickings, and soakings
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brought by ten grown fingers
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over six grown days--
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six days too many to carry the
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ominous signs of death and pollution--
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until finally taking one last pass
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around the bathtub drain and back again
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in swirls of softened darkness, and
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then out to the fishes, and
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ashes, ashes, we all fall
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down.
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