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Times is Hard

Anonymous Americas

Please don't burn our shit-house down,
  Mother has promised to pay.
  Father's away on the ocean wave,
  And sister's in the family way,
  Brother dear has gonorrhea,
  And times is fucking hard.
  So please don't burn our shit-house down,
  Or we'll all have to shit in the yard.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDEAE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 288
Words 50
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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