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"O, I'm the Unaverage Man, / But you never have heard of me, / For my brother, the Average Man, outran / My fame with rapiditee, / And I'm sunk in Oblivion's sea, / But my bully big brother the world can span / With his wide notorietee.
I do everything that I can / To make 'em attend to me, / But the papers ignore the Unaverage Man / With a weird uniformitee."
So sang with a dolorous note / A voice that I heard from the beach; / On the sable waters it seemed to float / Like a mortal part of speech.
The sea was Oblivion's sea, / And I cried as I plunged to swim: / "The Unaverage Man shall reside with me." / But he didn't -- I stayed with him!