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Slippage

   watery porridge

   GASP! a soggy oat
   slips past the beadle
     onto the floor

   urchins pounce
                   ~ splat!

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Date: 11/21/2023 10:05:00 PM
Even OliverTwist would rather not eat that oat.
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Date: 11/21/2023 5:45:00 PM
Yuck!! Lol!
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Date: 11/21/2023 4:41:00 AM
Doesn’t sound pleasant!
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 11/21/2023 7:33:00 PM
Doesn't taste too pleasant either. lol.
Date: 11/21/2023 4:36:00 AM
My mother made oatmeal you could stand a shovel up in...
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 11/21/2023 7:33:00 PM
-- and then your mother shoveled that oatmeal down your throat, no doubt. Tee-hee

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