'tutorial of tubes' - oh wow!
such sweet mastery, such purulent pastiche!
P-P
>From: Arthur <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: new sub:Falstaff 2002
>Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:23:28 -0000
>
>Falstaff.2002
>( Henry V Act 2 scene 3)
>
>At flicking beer mats I was adept.
>A life spent easy as copper coins,
>has lain me here, and yet
>I was wise as the world is thick
>and half as handsome, before this tutorial of tubes,
>clean sheets and bottle's tolling drip
>
>confounded me. Ah! Chimes at midnight, Hal, my boy,
>we heard them echo many a merry time,
> my cuppy lad, my yodel-dodel-day-to-die.
>
>Some Mistress Quickly comes and goes all day,
>collects my body's wastes while I decay
>into the gathering darkness of tomorrow?
>I catch the melody of forgotten sorrows.
>For-lal-for-lol-for-lorn-i-o,
>pick the wildflowers where they blow.
>
>See how she sways, like meadow grass
>under a summer breeze, my slender lass.
>
>This fetid lump of me fails, falls and chills,
>refuses to obey and die, yet will.
Perpetua Pullman
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