Julie loved to love.
It made her feel warm and fuzzy.
She loved everything and everyone.
She loved so much, so often, that it drove people away through annoyance.
Eventually she was completely and utterly alone and died of a broken heart.

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Josh really loved screaming.
Particular alone in the dark.
He’d do it most nights!
In fact he did it so regularly he was arrested for noise pollution and got shanked in the prison showers.

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Sandra loved high fives.
They just felt nice on her skin.
She’d high five anything:
Humans, dogs, furniture.
Last week she high fived a working chainsaw.
That’s what killed her.

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Micky loved peaches.
He loved how juicy they were.
Quite often he’d just squeeze the juice over his face and laugh.
One day he squeezed so much juice on himself he couldn’t wash it off.
An hour later a swarm of bees stung him on the cheeks and forehead until he died.

This poem was written using the Carl Burkitt Poem formula.

Step 1: Pick a person’s name
Step 2: Say they loved something
Step 3: Say why/how much they loved the thing
Step 4: Say what they did with the thing
Step 5: Kill them

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