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In the damp sick
In the dough
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chewed ons of the world:..
In the dough
In the chewed on chew of faces
of expensive car owner faces
chewed ons of the world:..
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like spiders when a fly is caught, began to appear.
And there, not the promised land, but barbwire and barbwire...
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