Well, that makes me hope I’m not one, Bill.
(Not sure about ‘ejaculation’ there…)(& do you need the triplet stanzas, when that mania seems rather run-on?)
Doug
> On Apr 11, 2018, at 3:37 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Bill thanks ha! poets amid the madness!!
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>
> On 10/04/2018 23:19, Bill Wootton wrote:
>> Who would volunteer
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>> for imprisonment,
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>> solitary confinement,
>>
>>
>> cutting off commerce
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>> with the world,
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>> even - and especially?
>>
>>
>> from loved ones,
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>> for submitting
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>> to hidebound rules
>>
>>
>> for jamming the head,
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>> setting up internal,
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>> infernal monologue,
>>
>>
>> going at it
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>> like a terrier,
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>> then fiddling,
>>
>>
>> retreating,
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>> hypothesising
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>> re-attacking,
>>
>>
>> not stopping
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>> until final
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>> ejaculation?
>>
>>
>> Solvers that’s who,
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>> itch scratchers,
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>> puzzle plungers
>>
>>
>> habit addicts,
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>> those whose minds
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>> need to find
>>
>>
>> even temporarily,
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>> some order
>>
>> amid the madness.
>>
>>
>> bw
>>
>> 11.3.18
Douglas Barbour
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Why not, then
let the stars
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