You remain a master of the understated overstatement, Pat.
Doug
> On Mar 2, 2016, at 3:14 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> IN HEAVY
>
>
> when
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> she after
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> some months
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> rather cruelly
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> insisted
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> that he actually
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> come and help
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> dig and wheelbarrow
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> on their allotment
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> she then
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> thought it
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> a tad overdone
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> for him to arrive
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> in front of
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> all the other
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> plot holders
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> limping dressed
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> as a slave in
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> heavy chains
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> dragging a wagon
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> singing sad
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> heart rending
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> pitiful spirituals
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> and rather loudly
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> weeping -wailing
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> and lamenting
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> pitiably
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>
>
> pmcmanus
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> r853
> Iliked the dragging out of the poem reflecting his dragging out of the great drama and after being crit by local group to shorten I lengthened it
> Published in Local Allotments Magazine -
> ps when set as plain text the bloody new computer puts into double spacing -help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Douglas Barbour
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