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On Valentine's Day

far back in 278 Anno Domini Emperor Claudius II had hung a holy priest called Valentine, Captain Cook on the 14th of '79 having circumnavigated his life was not a God, so killed by native blood line the Teddy Bear's 14th felt sorrowfully when lost to him on that day in '84 his mother, Mittie, and wife, Alice Lee that was the day back in '29 when thugs gunned down thugs their revenged vendetta time same time as Chicago gunned down penicillin was also discovered supplanting the sulfa drugs around dehydrated with fever oozing out virally you left too that 14th day leaving me with a sorrowed doubt so remembered year after year love's shot in the heart of those brothers we hold dear in some future 14th to come, perhaps my loving lover's gaze I'll remember handing some flowers, a love relapse © Goode Guy 2012-02-09 for my closest brother

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