It was in a pickle!
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A porcupine with split ends
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At the hickory dickory dock.
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Billllyuns and billllyuns. Light bulbs are part of the interstellar "goo" that pervades our universe; they are star stuff.
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and then it dawned on me.
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Because he want to wake up some day as America's First Dictator.
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