The Battle of the Bulge

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To hell with you, ignoble paunch, abhorrent in my sight! 
I gaze at your rotundity, and savage is my frown.
I'll rub you and I'll scrub you and I'll drub you day and night,
But by the gods of symmetry I swear I'll get you down.
Your smooth and smug convexity, by heck! I will subdue,
And when you tucker in again with joy will I refulge;
No longer of my toes will you obstruct my downward view...
With might and main I'll fight to gain the
Battle of the Bulge.

Robert W. Service: The Battle of the Bulge