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At the Cost of Pleasure

November 28, 2011
By PaulMental GOLD, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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"It's amazing what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit."

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I ate a Big Mac today.
It felt like loveless sex.
I left her in bed;
ketchup and cheese all over the sheets,
I tolder her I had to leave
to feed my dog, Butch.
She doesn't know I'm a cat person.
My wife still thinks I'm a vegetarian.

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