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Devil Bird of Dunne County: Cantos LVIII-LXI

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May 16, 2026
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Devil Bird of Dunne County: Cantos LVIII-LXI

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

LVIII

So attended they to him who was squashed,
Who breathed there his last, whose crushed bones were washed
With blood and the snow, and slush on the stair,
And collected they all, all they could bear,
Both ground-elf and lout, and this down …

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