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Whilst waiting in line,
Synchronised jigging of hips
Might help pass the time.
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Live… Woops!
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Précis: precisely
Saying what was said, but less
Not more. Precisely!
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This might have been like
What one would write, were one not
Sick of subjunctives.
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To not thinking?
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Go round, whereupon the rich
Round it up, not down.
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If you’re somebody,
Seems you must marry someone
Who’s not nobody.
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Yeats keeps arising
And going, going
but never gone
Along to Innisfree.
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La la la la la.
Why should the la la’s be last?
Let the la’s be first.
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Round about midnight
Is about the right time for
Midnight roundabouts.
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Woke up this morning,
Got them City blues. Two nil
Sutton United.
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A game of two halves:
Forty-five minutes followed
By the same again.
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Raynauld’s would’nt be
So cold, if it weren’t he who
Discovered Raynauld’s.
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The extremely unctious
Shouldn’t be that much in need
Of extreme unction.
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Veritas vincit.
Vincit veritas. Looked at
Front or back, truth wins.
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Charity may be
The best of the three,
but hope
Is the last to leave.
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(June, 2022)
Investigation
Into Capitol attack
Tells us truth trumps Trump.
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To linguacide’s a silent
Sort of genocide.
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The Land of the Free:
A euphemia where people
Get shot frequently.
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See common sense and amend
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RIP but, I
YWBSK,
RSVP, OK?
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Unbelievable!
Willard power puts camels through
The eye of a needle.
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Owning a joke shop
Is no laughing matter: it’s
The way they sell them.
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This has been written
By me, A.I. Sadly I can’t
Write my copyright.
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Let her, him, it or them be
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Lost!…
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Hey, Talking Black Sheep!
Got any wool? Yeah, three bags –
One each for three peeps.
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Higgle Piggle Hen
Lays lots of eggs, which I then
Sell to gentlemen.
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Cat cow little dog fiddle.
Dish spoon skedaddle.
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Curds, whey.
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Corner, Christmas pie,
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Fall! King’s cavalry. First aid.
Alas! Too ovulate.
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Fly spider bird cat dog goat
Cow horse. Dead? Of course.
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Ten thousand men.
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Surprise! There’s a picnic there
For teddy bears. Yay!
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Leat, is go mbeadh do shaol lán
Le áthas agus craic.
To meet you,
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A lesser grievance
Of old age, good grief! is pips
Stuck between your teeth.
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When all’s said and done
And the battle’s lost and won,
Two add two’s still four.
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After poetry, there’s
Doggerel, caterwaul and –
Begad! – bugger all.
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Being in a hurry
We’ve no time to worry about
How timeless is time.
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Live life like a poem.
No matter how hard at times,
Try to make it rhyme.
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Life is a struggle
Of Now versus Then, in which
Then is the winner. Amen.
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Metaphorical
And literal heartache. Not
Even simile.
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Heart failure is bad
But not even half as bad
As failure of the soul.
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I’m dead, I think, though
According to R Descartes,
Erm, therefore I aren’t.
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Perhaps post-humorously
Funny on the other side.
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But not quite.
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Tell me,
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When you’re feeling up
Side down, try to ground your feet
Firmly on the ceiling.
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It’s good to talk, good
To be silent. Better still
To know what’s good when.
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What happened before
The beginning began, and
What, after the end ends?
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Spring summer autumn
Winter. Birth adolescence
Adulthood death. Spring
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Et in saecula
Saeculorum orum or
Um orum. Amen.
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Horror without end
Is even worse than an end
With horror. The End.
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