Oh lor' Patrick, what a totally brilliant metaphor!
joanna
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From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 8:55 AM
Subject: snapshot Wednesday, 06 July 2005
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> POETRY LAKE
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> uninspired
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> he went down
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> to fish in his
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> poetry lake
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> got out his boat
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> all his tackle
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> nets and things
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> then tried first
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> for a warm up
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> a minnow haiku
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> quickly progressed
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> to a nice fat
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> sonnet perch
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> canto carp
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> idyll dace
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> epic eel
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> but then
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> unfortunately
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> got entangled
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> with a vicious
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> doggerel pike
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> which nearly
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> did for him
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> but his muse
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> threw a lifebelt
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> and mounted
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> a swift rescue
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> in an inflated
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> high powered
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> villanelle dinghy.
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> Pmcmanus earlyish
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