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Blackboards, Lines and Gallows

The exception makes the rule

so they say

except the rule is never fair

write it down a thousand times

in chalk

or ink

or blood

doesn't change the justice of it

or more often lack thereof

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Published: Nov 22, 2010
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Notes: ©Ed Hosking 2010. All Rights Reserved.

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