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Graduated

(2 stories)

Tony loved nothing but ice cream
Graduated from a lick, to obssession
Without the creamy stuff, he would ache
Filling bath with frozen confectionary
He stood in it for a night and a day
Hospitalised; hyperthermic reaction
Ice cream has turned Tony into a flake

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She fiddled with a dial as he wriggled against the wires and cuffs which held him in place. “Don’t worry” she smiled.” I’ll make sure the charge is…graduated.”