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Let me know if this poem is worth the punchline…<\/p>\n

Shorted \u2013 The Short Game Playing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We are getting
\nStupider and stupider
\nFoolisher and foolisher
\nDis regarding science
\nHeeding into foolhardiness
\nAnd heartlessness
\nAs scorn points
\nSoully paying
\nAttention to 1,000,000\u2019s and 1,000,000,000\u2019s
\nThose trinities of zeroes
\nLess sow
\nTo everything ails
\nThat zero sum game
\n0+0+0=0
\nWe need more
\nZeroes
\nLess like
\nPicking won self up
\nBye bootstraps
\nMore kin
\nShorted
\nBuy a wedgie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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