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I have a poetry book from the library that I have to return today and have thus been typing up some poems in order to keep them. Therefore, I thought I would share one that I particularly like.

As You Know, by Nick Lantz

As you know, the human head is the most
	commonly stolen body part.
As you know, honey does not spoil, and for this
	reason it was used to embalm
		the bodies of kings.
As you know, dogs were also convicted 
	of witchcraft and burned at the stake.
		So were chickens, fish, and a few trees.
As you know, some worms, if
	sufficiently starved, will eat
		their own bodies.
As you know, during the Cat Festival in Ypres,
	effigies of cats are thrown from a belfry tower
		(live cats were thrown until 1817).
		Revelers, dressed as cats and witches,
			dance in the street.
		As you know, this is the only event of interest
		ever to occur in Ypres.
As you know, an amputee may feel
	his missing limb moving
		of its own accord.
As you know, the word gift in German
	means poison.
As you know, a crow, finding three torn
	pieces of candy wrapper in the parking lot,
		will inspect each piece only once and then fly
			away.  As you know,
		a seagull will return again and again to each scrap,
			always expecting to find the missing food.
As you know, at over 300 years old the Endicott Pear Tree
	in Danvers, Massachusetts is the oldest fruit-bearing tree
		in North America.  It has survived four hurricanes
			and grew back when vandals cut off its trunk six feet
				above the ground.
		As you know, its pears are said to lack sweetness.