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English, 20.09.2020 09:01 jolleyrancher78

Next morning they turned up again, no worse for the cyanide than we for our cigarettes
and state-store Scotch, all of us up to scratch.
They brought down the marigolds as a matter of course
and then took over the vegetable patch
nipping the broccoli shoots, beheading the carrots.
"Woodchucks" by Maxine Kumin
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