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How, how, how in the big wide world of words did you end up with a daughter who can rhyme? And not only rhyme, but do it so it sounds nice and easy and natural and... oh, your genes have seriously mutated. So, the triplets are nicely done and a very cool setup but the real joy of this comes in the stream-of-consciousness shift to prose -- or surreal poetry that just can't be bothered breaking into smaller lines. I especially like "and i think i dislike what you said to your girlfriend last week about her hips", beautiful! A couple of bits are on the wordy side -- the second stanza could stand to be chopped a bit, things like "eagerly await" are cliched and can be said in a more interesting fashion -- but on the whole, this is really enjoyable and you know I'm not just saying that to encourage kids because you already know what I think about kids. Besides, she turned me into a newt.
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