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To Avoid Nightmares

September 2, 2011
By itstoohardtothink BRONZE, London, Other
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His nights were more piercing than anyone's scream,
So the old man devised an ingenious scheme.
He severed his head
before going to bed,
So his body could sleep without anguish of dream.

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