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Like Circus Ponies?

Dennis G. Jerz / 25 Nov 2003

Untenured radical flirts
attend MLA meetings in skirts,
feathers, tassels and suits,
with leatherette boots
Rendered wholly from Savile Row shirts

—Kieran Healy (see first comment) —Like Circus Ponies? (Invisible Adjuct)

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