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The Plastic Man

His life began with fertilization in the plastic test tube He was born on a plastic shawl and raised nestled on milk from a plastic bottle grown he ate from plastic plates, bowls and cups he sat on plastic chairs and bathed in plastic basins he ate synthetic food packed in plastic pots he then went to school wearing plastic shoes at school he studied plastic arts On his return home he carried his belongings in a plastic bag his mother had undergone the plastic surgery when she saw him she gave him a plastic smile He knew not that he was the plastic man but when the village drunkard called him plastic man he took a plastic rope and suicide he committed Dead he froze turgid like a plastic the police put his corpse in a plastic coffin He was buried in the graveyard full of plastics on his grave was an inscription engraved on a plastic cross thereon the inscription read here lies the plastic man who lived a plastic life but hated the plastic

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Date: 10/7/2010 9:04:00 AM
I enjoiyed the pen picture of the man who a plastic life but hated the plastic. Recently I sa two movies on the plastic person
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Date: 10/7/2010 8:39:00 AM
A clever and witty write, Bulinya. Welcome to PS! I hope you will enjoy your stay here. Thanks for sharing this. Truly enjoyed. Peace, Audrey
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