And we don't need any kings etc in Raynes Park!!
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Sent: 25 July 2013 07:02
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Subject: Re: Duff Laureate Poems
Hear, hear. Head, head, Andrew.
Bill
On 25/07/2013, at 11:58 AM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> Did you know the Royal Arse is in line to be King of Australia? Oh,
> the largest island country in the world is still ruled by a little
> island off the coast of France. Grrrrr ... Republicans! Rise up! Off with
his head!
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> Andrew Anti-Royalist
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> On 25 July 2013 02:17, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Indeed!
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>> Doug
>> On 2013-07-24, at 9:32 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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>>> Yes! Yes! Rise Sir Dominic
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>>> On 24 July 2013 16:25, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>> Your submissions are solicited for Duff Laureate Poems
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>>>> http://dufflaureatepoems.tumblr.com
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>>>> The rubric is: write the poem celebrating the Royal birth that
>>>> Carole
>> Ann
>>>> Duffy might have written, were she not currently "away". Triteness,
>>>> toadying and twee internal rhymes are encouraged.
>>>>
>>>> Here's mine, to give you a flavour:
>>>>
>>>> NO NAME
>>>>
>>>> No name, no name yet for the blue-blood wean
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>>>> except the one his lineage bestows,
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>>>> proudest and best of British, sunny as
>>>>
>>>> a day at Wimbledon, a glorious win -
>>>>
>>>> we welcome you, son of a royal Mother,
>>>>
>>>> our future King, our Prince Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
>>>>
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> Recording Dates
>> (Rubicon Press)
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>> Art is always the replacing of indifference by attention.
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>> Guy Davenport
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> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> 'Undercover of Lightness'
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> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
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