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Ah, the sonnet; I wrote a couple 30 leaden years ago ~ this one has been
reshuffled (I believe there was an American poet who did the same thing, no
doubt more hiply, Queneau wrote a number of infinitely recombinable
14-liners, but I think they didn't rhyme):
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I sense the pattern & I gasp for breath
green centres, shaded wrappings, technicolour lines
imaging the kind of muted scenic art
fits nicely with those green & weekend japes
a friend in verses romantically defines

I like your feuds so roseately robed
a coloured ball around the cosmos twirled
with pigsblood (comic shrieks, slow motion gapes)
which brings us clichéd prizes for the heart

: his multinaturalistic lotto
our recent epic of the fall bedaubed
though lacking the sensation of the latest deaths
gaining momentum, his thesis of the world
through sunglasses, the world is like a photo