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"Thing."

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"We love our cat,
for her self-regard

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is assiduous and bland.

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For she sits in the small
patch of sun on our rug

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and licks her claws
from all angles,

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and it is far superior
to balanced reporting.

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Though, of course, it is
also the very same thing."

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I wrote that one when
the reporters were being

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embedded in the war in Iraq.

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