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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Truth in advertising: the wooden leg

From the Detroit Free Press - Sep 19, 1882.

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Monday, October 14, 2013

Poem: Your Wooden Leg

By Jack Brummet

Run

If you still can.
Drag that wooden leg
Behind you, but keep up,
Jogging after your pipe-dream.

Think bullet-proof,
Dodge the ghosts,
And always remember
The way back
And the door out.
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