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Ottava Rima --- 2025 January 07

(a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c; rhyming scheme)

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Beyond the relics stance tainted feigned glory, the achievers had gifted us their puzzles, speckled based best in their field of theory, like Baia hot baths, can't stomach its guzzles, aloft or cavernous, or in a quarry, like those Pyramid guys fuss up their fuzzles, as rock piles escape while history depicts, the bookshelves leave those green stains with those quick picks. Millenniums, centuries, decades, plus years, anthropologists helped by benefactors, busy in their research before disasters, like Baia downed in Naples Bay, off its shores, letters for funding by their alma maters, reach prosperous grads where old money outpours, and achievers will have their dribblings published, skilled wins the Nobel Prize as greatly cherished.

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