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Its tears will be the moneyed mead of oil. So, shut the lights off, mama, for, no doubt, you&#8217;re gonna have some acid in your soil. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=906\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":606,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=606","url_meta":{"origin":906,"position":0},"title":"Global Warning","author":"Rick Young","date":"June 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Polar bear got nowhere to go once the ice all melts away. They're just bears. No one cares. 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