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Re: I stand before you

Posted by ESC on May 07, 2007

In Reply to: I stand before you posted by Campbell Wren on May 07, 2007

: I am looking for the entire poem/limerick, if you can call it that. The lines I remember - Ladies and gentleman, Hobos and tramps, I stand before you, not behind you. To address you, not to undress you.

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