>THESE ARE ENTRIES TO A WASHINGTON POST COMPETITION ASKING FOR A RHYME 
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>WITH THE MOST ROMANTIC FIRST LINE, BUT THE LEAST ROMANTIC SECOND LINE: 
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>  Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss 
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>  But I only slept with you, because I was pi#sed. 
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>  I thought that I could love no other 
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>  Until, that is, I met your brother. 
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>  Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are   you. 
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>  But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty 
>and so is your head. 
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>  Of loving beauty you float with grace 
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>  If only you could hide your face. 
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>  Kind, intelligent, loving and hot; 
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>  This describes everything you are not. 
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>  I want to feel your sweet embrace 
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>  But don't take that paper bag off of your face. 
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>  I love your smile, your face, and your eyes 
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>  Damn, I'm good at telling lies! 
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>  My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife: 
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>  Marrying you screwed up my life. 
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>  I see your face when I am dreaming. 
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>  That's why I always wake up screaming. 
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>  My love, you take my breath away. 
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>  What have you stepped in to smell this way 
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>  My feelings for you no words can tell, 
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>  Except for maybe "go to hell." 
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>  What inspired this amorous rhyme? 
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>  Two parts vodka, one part lime.