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There are killer weeds, deep in the flower patch,
down at the bottom of the tombstone.
Only they'll seem to breed out of the ground itself.
Even when new earth is put in,
or the old earth removed, the killer weeds return once more.
It must have something to do, I think,
with the very nature of the cemetery.
For we'll see it happening all of the time,
the impatiens or the pansies or the alyssum--
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