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For Bite Size Contest No113 Poetry Contest sponsored by Line Gauthier

I wonder if it strikes them odd, your ordinary tetrapod, carnivorous or grass-fed, to see such an enormous head, on a creature with, but two feet, who kills when he don't have to eat.

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Date: 5/19/2025 6:21:00 PM
I read the second line as 'your ornery tetrapod.' lol. ~ gw
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David Crandall
Date: 5/21/2025 2:42:00 PM
haha, that works too!
Date: 5/19/2025 11:20:00 AM
Well said and thought out!
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David Crandall
Date: 5/19/2025 3:33:00 PM
Thanks Kim!
Date: 5/19/2025 9:52:00 AM
just mammalian creatures is all we are.... within an image'nation of the mind....len
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David Crandall
Date: 5/19/2025 10:43:00 AM
i guess that's true - what an interesting evolutionary path.

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