SO those of you who do so choose
May make this thread a tale of blues
Or ballads 'bout the ole boll weevil
Or love back in the Age Primeval
About blood being as thick as water
Or loving up to someone's daughter
Or mounting up some monstrous labors
To hunt leviathan and his neighbors
Or wrapping the debbil up with rope
And sailing from Capes Horn and Hope
Or wearing out your wits in baitin'
That riddle-posing monster, Satan;
Or winning hearts, or winning bods
Or fighting dragons, plowing clods,
Drowning vile killers, pursuing Gods
Or finding groundhogs for to kill!
Pray, make it be 'bout what you will!
Except, I'll add, while I am hot,
Those things about which it is not!

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