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What words will the grievers write

For comrades soon departed

Laundry lists of platitudes

And tropes to get them started

Long-revolving doors of death

Bring out the best in others

Party lines of puffery

And documented druthers

What praise will the mourners heap

For their loved one's tagged big toe

Chestnuts bud from shibboleths

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