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Unread 04-28-2016, 08:59 AM
Roger Slater Roger Slater is offline
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I'd keep "up." Forcing the beat onto INtensive somehow suits the overall diction, sort of a hillbilly vernacular perhaps. And the line seems flat without the "up" to me.

Funny verse.
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