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Zack Holland's influences are Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, A. E. Housman and Wendy Cope :)
Yes, my parents were fishermen’s fishermen
And their parents were fishermen too
And they’d learned over centuries of fishing
That eleven’s too much for a crew.
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In Cologne from the Flora to Zülpicher Square
‘Mongst the traffic and concrete some parrots are there.
They escaped from the zoo
In 2002-
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She cannot help but kick me in the face;
She doesn't mean to do it but she does.
I love her more than stars can ever race-
She cannot help but kick me in the face.
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I've lost so many girls because of wasps;
They make me run away which isn't butch-
O, ignorance doth hail extensive costs!
One stung me just; It did not hurt that much.
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We're walking through the garden in the Spring,
The buds are coming out of all the trees.
The birdies in the bushes start to sing-
The pond water is rippling in the breeze.
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