Short Deduced Poems

once a small tabby named peaches

liked to recite lincoln speeches

at the senate she'd roost

till president deduced

that cats trying to impeach us.
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The coroner did not believe.
That that fellow knew how to grieve.
Suspicious suspect.

The man lay lying on the floor.
The coroner deduced once more.
Murder I detect....

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The Number they provided
They later just reduced
And it was, yes, deduced
That they were not seduced
But that it was induced:
Ascending price of wheat,
Eagles trying to beat
Five Thousand Leaves a day
To one thousand gives way.

Now workers to just sack;
Their names to fill a sack!...

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I wonder if the profit's less
 
in truthfulness

than in deceit and fabrication.

Could honesty be overrated?

Has anyone deduced the cost

of everything they might have lost

by being able

to spit their death to every word they've ever stated?

Might our happiness be greater 

if we showed enough consideration

to practice truth in moderation?...

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Two shoplifters, when they were caught,
Stealing items they just should have bought,
Fought their felony charge
For their total was large,
Adding up to much more than they’d thought.

See, their sentence, the thieves had deduced,
When the charges had been introduced,
Should be lessened, to scale,
Since just items on sale
Had been stolen, their prices reduced.
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