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Digging for clams
Is no simple case
Of open and shut;
Unhappily
They must take it all in
To discover what
Is worthy of time
And trouble and not
Just scuttlebutt.
Fearless leaders think
Death an abstraction;
Their followers blink,
Fearing exaction.
Said one bottom feeder to another,
“Let us go higher before we smother!”
Up the food chain as far as they could go,
They stopped and started choking those below.
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