JB Mulligan, selected poems from “City of Now and Then”

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the road to knowledge is arduous indeed
Frastus has been a man
and a woman.
The latter he tried once,
thinking it would help him
attain the wisdom of the ages
and a few good times.
So he blackmailed a god
into granting his wish:
what he got was
a case of the Curse
and a lewd proposition
from a dwarf wino
named Freddie.
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Frathtuth thayth the thooth
Frastus is [...]