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"On the Antiquity of Microbes"
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and the poem is "Adam had 'em."
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Pretty short.
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But Muhammad Ali's poem was
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"Me, we."
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Two words.
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I wrote Bartlett's Quotations
and I said, "Look, that's shorter."
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It stands for something more
than the poem itself.
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"Me, we." What a fighter he was.
And what a man.
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# Refugee cat... Ali, boma ye
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# Yes, yes... Rumble in the jungle
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# Come on!
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# Root to the fruit
more bass than Bootsy Collins
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# You versus me
that's like Ali versus Foreman
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# God's act, stand back and watch
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# Devil's time-out
can't be timed with no Swatch watch
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# Who I am, the Black Abraham
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# Zunga zunga zang
yellow man, Vietnam
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# Add an extra bar
as I spar with literature
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# Taking kingdoms from Tsars
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# Winning more wars than the Moors
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# Hey, what's the deal?
I seen the Devil spar with Allah
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# Mathematics was the key
to set my whole race free
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# You might debate we,
a refugee no harm hurt me
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# Dying, thirsty from the struggle
to my own hustle bubble
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# On the low, woe is me
to show the Free Bob right
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# The righteous Asiatic thinker
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# While Satan rob light
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# Civilised like the Molly
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# Burgundy, wildly rocking
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# Seen the fifth when Ali clocked him
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# John Forte will keep you locked in
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# People all around
you got to recognise and witness
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# The Mister who swift enough
to knock you out with mic fitness
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# Hands blistered
from holding the mic tight
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# Some say it's fight night
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# Well, throw the R after the F
cos I'm gonna take away your breath
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# The bell rings
and it's just a daily operation
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# Yo, you saw my lubrication
you can see this occupation
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# (The winner)
You know we're here from Q-borough
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# L-Booie and Clef the trainers
Prazwell promote the throw
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# We used to bite the bullets
with the pigskin cases
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# Now we perfect slang
like a gang of street masons
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# Scribe check make connects
true pyramid architects
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