Oh my, indeed. A rather terrible situation, as they say,
I’s drop the ‘was’ from 'as was demanded’ & 'to him’, to make it even sharper…
Doug
> On Jun 17, 2020, at 9:38 AM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Oh my.
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 11:47 PM Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> *KISS*
>>
>> when she
>>
>> young thing
>>
>> sadly came
>>
>> back
>>
>> to her
>>
>> ever mean
>>
>> demanding
>>
>> miserable miserly
>>
>> elderly husband
>>
>> she gave him
>>
>> as was demanded
>>
>> a lingering kiss
>>
>> then failed
>>
>> to mention
>>
>> to him
>>
>> the bad news
>>
>> that she had
>>
>> caught Covid
>>
>> nineteen
>>
>> and
>>
>> then
>>
>> inwardly
>>
>> secretly
>>
>> smiled
>>
>> to
>>
>> herself
>>
>> /pmcmanus/
>>
>> /s650/
Douglas Barbour
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https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
When thugs were in power, educated people were the first
to feel their fists. It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence
came from someone feeling small. Small of mind, and it did not
matter how big the sword in hand, that essential smallness remained, gnawing with very sharp teeth.
the scholar Janath Anar
in Steven Eerikson’s Reaper’s Gale
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