This poem borrows it's penultimate line from the 1895 nonsense poem by Gelett Burgess, "Purple Cow."

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I have no use for lawyers

lest they’re fighting on my side

and win my case but don’t erase

what profits are applied,

or they convict the gangsters

whom we voted for with pride,

or creditors and pranksters

whom I simply can’t abide,

and though I’m writing just for fun,

(while on the run, I hide)

I’d rather be than see one—

I don’t want to be stir-fried.

By Ken Gosse

From: United States

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