Ha: I read it first as ‘slaughter’ in the subject line, Bill.
But the actual piece catches something there, how it occurs…
Doug
> On Dec 11, 2018, at 2:25 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> There’s an American laugh
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> A wordless hilarity-burst
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> anywhere you go in Europe
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> You just know when it starts up
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> the words that follow
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> will not be French
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> or Spanish or Portuguese
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> It hangs
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> in the smitten air
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> welcome
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> as cigar smoke
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> bw
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