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Posted: Tuesday June 8, 2010
derek beaulieu - from How To Write
A CHAIN SAW
A chain saw is wisely resplendent. Any cab driver can write a love
letter to the paycheck around the inferiority complex, but it takes
a real warranty to seek some chain saw.
Indeed, the gentle tomato barely assimilates a blood clot from the
stove pipe.
Furthermore, the sheriff gets stinking drunk and a corporation
behind the warranty goes deep sea fishing with an orbiting
power drill.
Now and then the satellite recognizes the microscope.