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Maury Povich will burn in hell.
There will be no fire,
just toothless women waiting for the DNA test
  results:

Who is the daddy?

He will find out Connie Chung is really a drag
  queen.
Jerry Springer and Geraldo will join him.
They will fist fight, chairs fly across the room,
a gun will go off.
The ratings will go up,
another body comes back from Iraq.

The top news of the day:
Paris goes to jail,
and the war still goes on.

-- Karen Manion

Karen Manion lives in Point Breeze. She works in nonprofit fund-raising. Many writers featured in Chapter & Verse are guests of Prosody, produced by Jan Beatty and Ellen Wadey. Prosody airs every Tuesday at 7 p.m. on independent radio, WYEP 91.3 FM.

Ephemeral art made at Chalk Fest
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Ephemeral art made at Chalk Fest

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