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The coffee klatch











                                Him? We’re just nodding acquaintances—
                                we put each other to sleep.



            I had a dinner date with a              An astronaut tried to get me
            taxidermist, but he just wanted      on his launch pad, so I gave
            to stuff and mount me.                  him an antigravity belt that
                                                                  made him see stars.





             Well, a guy in the park said he              I knew I could wrap him
            wanted to kiss me on the rotunda,        around my little finger,
            so I socked him on the jaw.                  even though he thought
                                                                         he could wrap me around
                                                                        an appendage of his own.



                                After he told me he was a philatelist,
                                I gave him a first-class stamping on his foot.
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