Oh I understand, too well, Max. Good one by, I assume, that Diane...
Doug
On 2013-07-29, at 5:09 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> My friend Alan in Dunedin has sent me this 'from the ODT'.
>
> ODT is the Otago Daily Times, i.e. the Dunedin paper, and I wonder how many dailies run a regular poem space….
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>> Diane Brown, ‘Complaint to Qwerty’
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>> i should not be next to u
>> y is too close and asks
>> too many questions
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>> it’s all too easy to finger
>> slip into a dance with u, start
>> writing dicks instead of ducks
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>> being cut out of the maiden
>> aunt’s will, by texting, you still
>> suck? not, you still sick?
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>> tweeting my boss good lick,
>> not good luck; like I said,
>> I should not be next to u
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>> we is watching from the end
>> of the line and u make me
>> nervous with your curves,
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>> your lovely form, u make me
>> forget myself, how straight
>> up and down i am
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>> ______________
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>
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