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==[[Strange Negotiation]]==
''With profound apologies to Wilfred Owen. Honestly, I am really sorry to do this to you.''<br>
''With profound apologies to Wilfred Owen. Honestly, I am really sorry to do this to you.''<br>


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Some profound dull [[representation]], long since [[Waiver|waived]] <br>
Some profound dull [[representation]], long since [[Waiver|waived]] <br>
Through [[credit]] whose dyspeptic permission granted <br>
Through [[credit]] whose dyspeptic permission granted <br>
Though [[caveat|caveated]] teeth, a route to our sweet resolve. <br>  
Though [[caveat|caveated]] teeth, a route to our sweet [[Consensus ad idem|resolve]]. <br>  


Yet also there [[Encumbrance|encumbered]] assets groaned, <br>
Yet also there [[Encumbrance|encumbered]] [[asset]]s groaned, <br>
Too [[Fixed charge|fix’d in charge]] or [[pledge]] to be bestirred. <br>
Too [[Fixed charge|fix’d in charge]], or [[pledge]], or [[lien]] to be [[reused]]. <br>
Then, as I probed the [[lien]]s, one sprang up, and cried<br>
Then, as I probed the [[lien]]s, one sprang up, and cried<br>
With piteous [[recharacterisation]] in his eyes, <br>
With piteous [[recharacterisation]] in his eyes, <br>
Lifting distressèd claims, as if to clarify. <br>
Lifting distressèd claims, as if to clarify. <br>
And by his [[carve-out]], I knew that [[margin call]],— <br>
His speculation tanked, I made that [[margin call]],— <br>
[[Without limitation|Absent limit]], [[For the avoidance of doubt|all doubt avoided]]: we stood in Hell. <br>
[[Without limitation|Absent limit]], [[For the avoidance of doubt|all doubt avoided]]: we stood in Hell. <br>


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The whole [[Entropy|entropic]] ''all''. <br>
The whole [[Entropy|entropic]] ''all''. <br>


And if I grieve, I grieve for wasted words: <br>
And if I grieve, I grieve for wasted [[Verbiage|word]]s: <br>
Cast carelessly about, in clumps and hanks of twisted [[flannel]] — <br>
Cast carelessly about, in clumps and hanks of twisted [[flannel]] — <br>
[[Carve-in]]s, [[carve-out]]s, carve-ons; carve-unders strewn about <br>
[[Carve-in]]s, [[carve-out]]s, carve-ons; carve-unders strewn about <br>
In [[fractal]] spumes: a [[Anal paradox|paradoxic annal]].<br>
In [[fractal]] spumes: a [[Anal paradox|paradoxic annal]].<br>
For, by my glee, might many men have laughed,<br>  
For, by my glee, might many lawy’rs laugh,<br>  
At my [[double negative]]s. [[I'm not going to die in a ditch about it|That ditch, in which I thought<br>I would not lie]], <br>
At my [[double negative]]s. [[I'm not going to die in a ditch about it|That ditch, in which I thought<br>I would not lie]], <br>
I must now die. <br>
I must now die. <br>
And so [[Expiration Date - Equity Derivatives Provision|expired]] — [[Mark-down|marked-down]] — the [[option]] cruelly tamed: <br>
And so [[Expiration Date - Equity Derivatives Provision|expired]] — [[Mark-down|marked-down]] — the [[option]] cruelly tamed: <br>
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Courage was mine, and I had mystery; <br>
Courage was mine, and I had mystery; <br>
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: <br>
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: <br>
To miss the march of this retreating world <br>
To miss the text of this redacting world <br>
Into vain citadels that are not walled. <br>
Into vain [[incluso]]s that are not walled. <br>
Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels, <br>
Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels, <br>
I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, <br>
I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, <br>