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whitney houston athens burning

          is your boyfriend as wasted as mine?

                                               —Alli Warren

just so that some schmuck who’s

googled whitney houston turns up,

eyes double-blinking, here.  imagining

the elegant rhyme of schmuck with

the wonderful title a duck is a duck.

Or whichever lagoon is richest.  Or 
wherever the lugume is itchiest.

Oops, they just served a pork

tenderloin on CNN.