The Sea

### The Sea Nous buvions sec nos verres et vers, Étant toujours trop tête en l'air, Cherchant les mots pour taire la mer, Mais tu me manques : À quoi je sers ? Chaque jour à l'aube, « Tiens, je m'en vais, » Au crépuscule, « Tiens,...

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The Giggling Loon

### The Giggling Loon A gig'ling loon, A gibbous moon, And on the wind a crying croon— A dogged tramp, A dreary lamp, And cemetery freshly damp— A prying bar, A spent cigar, And twitching paws as black as tar— A blackened spade, A sound...

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Song of the Sauna & Epitaph for Innocence

### Preamble An epitaph is a short piece of writing that honours the deceased, sometimes inscribed on the tombstone. A poetic epitaph is often a quatrain or couplet, and generally has a rhyme scheme of aabb or simply aa (for quatrains and couplets...

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Dandelions

**Dandelions** Dandelions are lonely cats of lost garden savannahs roaring in the wind.

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Remember Me

### Remember Me Remember me in life, not death, recount my numbered days— there is no sense in wasting breath to feed a fading blaze, Remember me in how I lived, the colours we did share— and light my passions yet unlived and watch them as they...

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To Thing

### To Thing You thing and bring a forth to be, You make, unmake, a thing to thee, A thee to hear with eye not ear, A prompt of thing to enter here, Your thinging gentle like the mouth, Yet might in heart doth oft it...

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Sheep's Clothing

### Sheep's Clothing A wayward Wolf in need of dashing dress, 'Twas from a faithful flock he fleeced some tress. Escape unwatched, with ease he could egress, And yet a yen compelled him to confess. With pilfered wool in paw he did profess, His...

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Tune of the Toy

### Tune of the Toy A burly bear with jawbone square, A secret aching itch, He'd hid so long his fairy flair— His need to take, not pitch! But come one night of poorly paw, He stroked to no avail, No hole to pound, no soft slick maw— Just...

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arg === "equal" & Cruising

### Preamble A Petrarchan sonnet follows the rhyme scheme abba abba cdX cdX, where X is either c or e. The first two quatrains announce the problem, while the shift from the problem to the resolution or answer begin with the sestet (the last six lines...

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Withdrawal

### Withdrawal Suspended here above your silken bed, I yearn to feel your lovely needle's prick; For me, you are the screw, and I the thread, As what we have burns true, just like the wick. What use can have a key without a lock? Left unfulfilled...

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The Diplomat

### The Diplomat The Diplomat's a sorry, somber sort who murmurs, meek, before their looming lords and sings to them apologies for crimes unfurled in distant lands by foreign kings for whom regurgitation is a part of every meal, and every...

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Re: Fwd: Fwd: DO NOT OPEN THIS EMAIL!!!

Re: Fwd: Fwd: DO NOT OPEN THIS EMAIL!!! by charles michael averin * * * **From:** Christine Collins \<c\_collins@fa.fur\> **Sent:** Friday, January 25, 2019 1:56:24 PM **To:** A. Asato \<a\_asato@fa.fur\> **Subject:**...

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