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Intimations of My Late Mother As a Bachelorette

Attempt to shine flickering figurative klieg light with the help of hyperbole on poverty wrought debutante material, this predicated on my own unbiased thought initially related during my early boyhood, how many countless bachelor beaus sought to pledge their troth, who hailed (strictly for purposes of this poem) from Pennsauken, Perth Amboy, Penobscot, but thee essential truth ought to be gleaned (lodged as like some precious gem within geode, qua Harriet Kuritsky, who oft times recounted her personal anecdotal information) underlying veritable truth, I allude means to underscore how thine late mum as the "baby" of her family wore mantle of exclusive favoritism, sans donning beautiful clothes perfectly cared for, coiffed, and curled hair (think Shirley Temple) as her older sisters brewed festered, and steeped with jealousy, asper me mother receiving lion's share of blatant favoritism all the while said long since deceased maternal aunts got exclude did from requisite (shut heard textbook case) maternal love, hence within their cerebral hood incubated, evolved, and flourished emotional disease affliction with changeable mood and thee Aunt Ruth oblivious, while pacing hallway in the nude whereat verbally abuse sent both aunts to mental institution insanity didst the ultimate discordant prelude resulting viz lifetime of baleful, hateful, shameful, and worthless venom got spewed, hence no surprise rabid mailer daemons courted, thus psychosis easily wooed.

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