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Elegant

Loxodonta,

Empathic and patient

Pachyderm, you

Have no defense but size.

Avarice, your enormous foe

Now compromises your

Term on earth. Karmic woe to man(un)kind.

Peace!

As in the word “shalom,” it

Leaves the receiver

Of this greeting, or farewell, with a

Happy sense of completion—

An alpha and omega in one.

Draft

Dragons pulled bears in wagons,

Remembered, then rendered the

Artist, who sipped from a magical flagon,

When he needed to feel his smartest.

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Reproach and

Insult

Delivered in derision

Is sadly a blind and

Cowardly decision.

Unexpectedly, the mean-minded

Laughter will come back to haunt one

Ever after.

A one, and a two, and a...

Numeric characters,

Under the rule of

Math,

Behave in an orderly way.

Even as entertainment, they

Recount tales in a straight path.