This reads so smoothly to me that I feel this how smooth a good sonnet
should read. very accomplished. Thanks.Arthur
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From: "grasshopper" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 3:18 PM
Subject: New Sub: Pumpkin Pie
> Pumpkin Pie
>
> He'd sworn that she was not his type, too thin
> with, at the most, three-quarters of a working mind,-
> and, Geez, that laugh,- a gerbil drowned in gin!
> He'd stressed again that he abhorred that kind
> of wet-lipped tart with schlepp fit for a clown,
> all tawdry flesh and flash, a laughing stock,
> hems hoist like flags and necklines plunging down:
> sure signs of too much mileage on the clock.
>
> His wife soon read the tale in Visa's sums,
> his statements contradicted, line by line;
> how odd a modern fairytale becomes
> when fantasy and fact and lies combine.
> The ugly sister croaked. Once she was dead,
> he'd had a ball in Cinderella's bed.
>
> grasshopper
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