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The sideburns are shorn.
The Festivus pole is up.
The chicken’s living
a bad dream, about to sleep.
I have miles to go.

This poem is:
a) serious.
b) ironic.
c) both serious and ironic.
d) neither serious nor ironic.

If you answered any of the above, and could back up your answer with a ten-minute explanation, you should consider graduate school for English. Take my spot, vacant as of 1/2 a paper more.

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