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Neanderthalic Antics: Cantos IV-VI

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Jun 09, 2026
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Neanderthalic Antics: Cantos IV-VI

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

In the canteen, one evening after hence,
With brown-bagged booze we gathered, and toasted,
This clandestine celebration, our work,
The fruits of our own brave brains, and funding,
Of course, from the brutes who scabbered about,
With knuckled hands, and …

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