yep, great fun; I can see it as a good performance piece…
Doug
> On Jan 17, 2017, at 7:25 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Yes, meant that, Millicent. People goblinising words so often now.
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> Bill
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> On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 at 11:25 AM, Millicent Borges Accardi <
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>> With the repetition, it reminds me a little of Goblin Market's refrain:
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>> Millicent
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>> New Poetry Collection: Only More So @ Amazon
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>> http://www.MillicentBorgesAccardi.com
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>> @TopangaHippie on Twitter
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>> Água mole em pedra dura tanto dá até que fura
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> From: Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
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>> To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Sent: Tue, Jan 17, 2017 3:28 pm
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>> Subject: Re: Word Museum
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>> Great fun, Bill.
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>> Andrew
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>> On 18 January 2017 at 08:47, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
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>>> Feel free, poetryetcers, to add to or modify the attractions available
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>>> Word Museum
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>>> Come by, come by
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>>> Inside you will see
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>>> words, words, words,
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>>> in wildly involving contexts.
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>>> Check Virtual Displays.
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>>> Awesome, propped
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>>> next to a canyon,
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>>> not Yeh, that'd be fine.
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>>> Ten percent of a cohort
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>>> of soldiers graphically
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>>> Decimated but far
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>>> In Pedant Corner,
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>>> Faces gazing at a sunrise
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>>> Hopefully, not
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>>> maybe, might.
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>>> No Growing a business here;
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>>> tomatoes will be Growing
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>>> as they used to.
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>>> Pun wonders to leave you
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>>> mouthing in groaning joy.
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>>> All these and more.
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>>> Come by, come by.
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>>> bw
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>>> 18.7.17
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>> --
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>> Andrew
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>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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>> Books available through Walleah Press
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>> http://walleahpress.com.au
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Douglas Barbour
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