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Which nicely segues to a favorite quatrain of mine by him:
"prohibition is something that
makes you want to cry in your beer
and then denies you
the beer to cry into."
or, for the naturalist:
"the honey bee is mad and cross
and wicked as a weasel
and when she perches on you boss
she leaves a little measle"
--ml