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Fighting the Anaconda Kid

Alternate title:Untitled (“They matched me up that night with a bird . . .”)
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Darker Moods
SectionPoetry for Friends

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They matched me up that night with a bird that was a fright,The Anaconda Kid from Amsterdam,His face was like a fable, his wrist a hawser’s cable;His shoulder was a gable, his arm a battering ram.

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