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To tie off a loose end, this is the complete version of the interrupted limerick in my short story Tale III: The Prose and Verse on PoetrySoup.

Their fists were of furious intent, But backs were too aged and bent. It wasn't the seizing, But rather the wheezing, That both to the hospital sent.

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