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5/17/2010 11:52:31 AM Michael Benkhen Posts: 40	The Gulf Of Dead Silence Sweet Empty gulf farewell all the animals I've known so well a drift among the lifeless waves corroding in the grim sun's rays the dim murk reaks of death the odor causes my nose distress I'll never see the water blue consumed forever by BP's Crude. - To every animal that has swam, trot, or flew I bid thee all adieu I'll miss you. -- The land is littered with the graves of animals I never killed yet somehow mourn.
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5/18/2010 10:17:14 AM Michael Benkhen Posts: 40	Sweet Empty gulf farewell all the animals I've known so well adrift among the lifeless waves corroding in the grim sun's rays. Oh the dim murk reeks of death the odors cause my nose distress I'll never see the water blue consumed forever by BP's Crude. - To every animal that has swam, trot, or flew I bid thee all adieu I'll miss you. I revised it...tell me what you all think -- The land is littered with the graves of animals I never killed yet somehow mourn.
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5/18/2010 4:09:05 PM Michael Benkhen Posts: 40	That's assuming that nothing lives on land near the Gulf...No little rodents or animals of any kind. I chose trot because it worked nicely with my flow...and could be a euphemism for animals on land. Ummm...Hopefully in the future everyone will know about this horrible crime...especially anyone who grows up in the south and sees the black polluted water and wonders how it got that way. -- The land is littered with the graves of animals I never killed yet somehow mourn.
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