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I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

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Dan Bejar
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: October 4
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Dominion of Canada
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