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van Gogh's Vegetable Gardens in The Montmartre
a petty thief with a soft hand
stole silently across th'land:

Th'Doubts he dropt on foolish ears
fell hard (loudly cementing their Fears!)

Th'Lies he laid grasshopper-legs
disseminated like insects' eggs.

Where he took hold the once clear mead
became th'haunting grounds of The Dead

& when he passed (since he had been
Paradox! th'death most pestilent)

men came & built him The Greatest Monument
ever seen

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