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Poetry: The Missing Culture Snob Ingredient

September 13, 2021January 12, 2005 by Culture Snob

At the request of my wife – who is irritated that Red Sox Haiku isn’t updated more frequently – I offer this poetry gem, written in crayon by us over beer one night:

A curse that ne’er was
has finally been banished.
Thank you, young Theo.

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