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my two thousandth wife ( a true tale )

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well now my two thousandth wife

yes i've been married a few times

i'm no bigamist or sheikh

no just particularly like cake


plus i'm good at stealing rings

so then it doesn't cost a thing

one day she burst into flames

in a sudden cloudburst of rain


which to you might sound bizarre

but honestly that's how things are

in seconds mere she was ash

unsavable - gone in a flash


next down the drains her ash went

as my shocked eyes wept sad laments

then came grief - the deepest woe

but that was many wives ago

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