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Thursday, September 7, 2023

The Seven-Tier Itch

The folk who suffer itchy eyes: 
with that whole lot I sympathize.
For ev'ry bloke with itchy nose 
my fellow feeling only grows.
     I know; I get it: itchy ears 
will always hinder how one hears,
nor is there nowt that fully calms 
the agony of itchy palms.
     Inform me: when's an itchy throat 
not altogether get my goat!
Moreover, as for itchy skin -- 
who there amongst us hasn't been...?
    Indeed, I'm itchy ev'rywhere, 
and it's so (blank'ty-blank) unfair.
(I shall herein pass over -- natch' -- 
that patch I'm not allow'd to scratch.)  

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