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Traces of Hadrian in Porphyry a fictive purple man from Tyre

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  by Damien F. Mackey     Well, I saw the thing comin' out of the sky It had a-one long horn and one big eye (Ooh!) I commenced to shakin' and I said, "Ooh-eee! It looks like a purple people eater to me!"   It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater (One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater) A one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater Sure looks strange to me (One eye?)   Well, he came down to Earth and he laid in a tree I said, "Mr. Purple People Eater, don't eat me!" I heard him say in a voice so gruff: "I wouldn't eat you 'cause you're so tough"   It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater One-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater …. I said, "Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line?" He said, "It's eatin' purple people and it sure is fine But that's not the reason that I came to land I wa...