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    on A New Year's Resolution to Leave Dundee by William Topaz McGonagall, 3 minutes ago
    He most likely was disrespected in Dundee for his awful poetry, if this poem is representative of the body of his work.

    Brazos


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    on Thalidomide by Sylvia Plath, 9 hours ago
    From guest tamanna (contact)
    at first she is describing the people who are born with defects.she says they are like halfmoon , half brain,that rae just a negro with a mask or at least that's waht people think. and then she describes the defects."what glove"she thinks that she could be a victim too .victim ofinedible buds.all the night she is thinking or praying because of the thing she has "health".2 wet eyes and...white spit what can it mean is she indiffrence?the dark fruist are defected people who are to revolve and fall.


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    on In Darkness Let Me Dwell by John Dowland, 1 day ago

    Dowland's Genius

    From guest oliver (contact)
    Truly the best song writer possibly ever to have lived. Both his lyrical beauty and dexterity contrast so much with the delicate passages of melancholy progressions. A truly masterful artist

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