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  • Poetry Reading: THE KISS, by Thomas J...

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    The most passionate kiss
    that I ever saw
    –and the longest!–
    happened at the wedding
    when Leonard O’Neal took a wife.
    The bride’s Swedish father,
    stern and adamantly opposed
    to the whole affair,
    though provoked,
    was restrained by awe
    at what he saw.

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    Out of its cooler,
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    The morbid star
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    I am a night serpent
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