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The candy colored coral snake.
The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.
Décolletage.
Beware of conspicuous beauty.
Its venom can be deadly.


Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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of madness.
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Look, the trees
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The anthem of the world.
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You want to cry aloud for your
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I gave him a hurt look.

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o...
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(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)
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