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Octologs

                                              Eight-word
                                     epigrams

                      I ate words                  To much,
                   And now                         Too many;
                   I hate words.                   To many,
                       .                           Too much.






                 Ice cream                         You’ll help
                 Watched melt                      Yourself if
                 Is time                           You can’t
                 Passed felt.                      Help yourself.







               The tribal bible                    Shoppers
               Is the                              Go shopping
               Book of look.                       The way fish
                                                   Go fishing.





                 I’m taught
                 By flame                            Toward the sun
                 That moth’s                         Hanging fruit
                 My name.                            At midnight grows.
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