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Life is a cynical, romantic pig ...

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Life is a cynical, romantic pig ...
by Robert E. Howard

From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. February 1930; titled with the first line in COLLECTED POETRY

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Life is a cynical, romantic pig;

Life is a jackass on a slender twig;

Life is an elephant upon a fig;

Life is a lobster with a yellow wig.


—Philosophy of Hoolyu Li Awn.

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