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Elizabeth Cotton

The Tortured Poets Department

Tortured Poets Department, how can you help me?

Press one for English, two for pained brooding

For quality assurance purposes you will be recorded

In cheap forgettable rhymes in iambic pentameter


Operator, operator, let me talk to a human person

Let me transfer you, and meanwhile, please hold me

Tight and close, for nine to ten business days

Let's circle back around to where we first began


If you don't get it, that's on you, just file it away

Born too early or too late, no one can understand

Please don't forget about us, write once a while

From all of us at the Tortured Poets Department.

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