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David Burge
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This is why you can't trust Wikipedia. Sure, I'm dead, but obviously my poetry is not "humorously bad"
my ghostly apparition remains floating in this mortal coil only to haunt the critics of my poetry
Someday, my doggerel will be universally proclaimed the finest works of art ever produced by a human being. Until then, I will remain in your timeline, eerily rattling my chains and dropping fart jokes
In the Ghost Realm I am known as the Flying Dutch Oven
See, if overrated hacks like Byron or Shakespeare had written that tweet it would have already prompted a million likes and RTs and dissertation proposals
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David Burge
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hey man, we all grieve in our own way OKAY
nypost.com/2019/01/10/man…
Bandit and I had a pact that whoever was the last survivor would take the other's remains to San Francisco and lay them to rest in McDonald's dumpster
Some of my happiest memories were spent scrounging for McNuggets in a dumpster with Bandit. Catch you at the Rainbow Bridge, my friend #RIP
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David Burge
@iowahawkblog
Four years a bonafide certified sanctified citizen of Texas
Mrs B and I are right obliged to y'all for the hospitality
We’ve gone native
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David Burge
@iowahawkblog
happy new year
I've been chuggin' mugs, smokin' drugs, gappin' plugs, spinnin' lugs, cuttin' rugs & gettin' hugs
Also hanging out with Aussie cartoonist/illustrator extraordinaire Johannes Leak and his lovely fiancee Sally. Check out his work here:
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