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Choice

Wallace Dean LaBenne

They choose the news
to make them squawk
They choose to schmooze to make them talk
They choose to snooze
to make them rest
They choose to muse to make them best
They choose to ooze
to make them leach
They choose to ruse to make them breach
They choose to booze
to make them numb
They choose to use to make them scum
They choose to fuse
to make them mix
They choose to lose to make them fix
They choose the blues
to make them sad
They choose to cruise to make them glad
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

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Scheme ABBACCADDAEEAFFAGG
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 451
Words 96
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
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