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  • adjective Occurring in the drilled bore of an oil well either underground or undersea.

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  • It could be a Stephen King clown stole

    Some oil giant’s blackening brown soul

    And crammed it like phlegm

    In the steel flower’s stem,

    Accounting for obstacles downhole.

    October 6, 2018