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The Red Well-Read Reader
Story 252
The Lazy Bloke
The lazy bloke before noon never awoke. The rest of the
day he drank case after case of coke and blew rings of
cig•a•rette smoke, so many so that he would nearly choke.
He said, "It isn't a joke ! Work makes me want to croak,
par•a•lyz%ing me as if by a stroke. Never, I say, will I be
under anyone's yoke."
Thus, it's no surprise that this lazy bloke was nearly
always broke.
Story 253
Under The Oak
When the rain fell not one of the folk had on a rain cloak.
Yet nobody croaked, 'cause nobody got soaked.
They stoked up a fire under an oak,
where they sat happily drinking their coke
and munching egg yolk and hearts of ar•ti•choke.
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