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Well I, I sold my soul to God,
Though solely did I brink, bitch, and buy back --
As a prisoner, his privilege to retract,
Will flail, flog, and fink -- a silly, flawed

Instrument of -- now do not think it odd --
Monument to commemorate the lack
Of clown, hangman, and judge, all three in black.

Excuse the first, he only in motley.
Second -- Do you hear him? -- He said: "A scarf."
"A scarf?" quotes the third, "For whom to strangle?"

Insipid inner-city lights can carve
A balcony from which -- Look! -- the angel
Places a triumvirate in his absence,
Plowing an abysmal reticence.

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