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2014-12-192010-10-02

Onstage the panel host,
a young woman
(dyed blonde waves,
strappy top that she periodically adjusts),
adores (with exposed wrists,
pressed-out lips, uptipped chin,
crossed ankles)
three awkward, scruffy, peculiar, camp old men

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