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First Line: ONCE THERE WAS AN ARCHER
Last Line: That's how matter mattered
Subject(s): HUNTING;
Once there was an Archer,
And there was a minute
When He shot a shaft
On a New Departure.
Then He must have laughed;
Comedy was in it.
For the game He hunted
Was the non-existence
Of the Phoenix pullet
(The M?????? [not being] of Plato),
And the shaft got blunted
On her non-resistance.
Like a dum-dum bullet -
Did in fact get splattered
Like a ripe tomato. 15
That's how matter mattered.



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