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In Search of 50 Names(couplets alphabetized for ease of footnoting the names) A) A tom cat sits in heather nearby a willow tree. Rose and jasmine fill the air. A billy goat I see. B) 50 words that sound like names I seek. A pail I carry. I wade across a nearby stream just now to pick a berry. C) Already I have found ten names! What a fun quest I am on A fanny pack and comfy shoes and jeans I had to don. D) Three more I found! Did you know? I now go through a glen. Upon a colt I bob along as I go up a ben. E) The cliff is steep. I must go down. A hunter I now spy. To a blue jay he gives chase. One and twenty names have I! F) There comes a gale, but I am wily, and I find a lee dug by someone in the earth. Into it I flee. G) Twenty-five names I have found; twenty-five I lack. I leave my shelter, rob a van, but now I need a jack. H) Are you aware of three more names I've added on my way? I fix the van and now in earnest, I cannot delay. I) I go for miles. Have you kept track? Thirty names I’m at. I see a gym and go inside. They have a welcome mat. J) With thirty-two fine names, I’m feeling good and so I pat myself upon the back and tarry at the gym because I’m fat. K) I nick myself while lifting weights and go into the john. If you can notice, it’s now thirty-six names that I’m on. L) A guy is in the ladies room. I’ll be frank. He’s a dick. I’m curt with him and let him know that he makes me sick. M) It’s forty names that I have found; I only need ten more. I spot a karaoke bar and open up its door. N) By the way, I’m looking for a man that I may marry. I will find him in this place but he better not be hairy. O) Those last two lines had four names in them, did you know? Two of them were also modals going with my flow. P) There’s another! Five remain to which I must be led. Also, I have found my mark, the man I want to wed. Q) He’s singing at the mike. Both cute and rich he seems. And I’m feeling randy; he’s the vision in my dreams. R) I vie for his attention. Fifty names and he are mine!* *I took off the first line of the last couplet when I realized I had gone over the 35 line max! The names I found per couplet are these: A) Tom, Heather, Willow, Rose, Jasmine, Billy B) Carrie, Wade, Barry C) Fanny, Jean(s), Don D) Glen, Colt, Bob, Ben E) Cliff, Hunter, Jay, Chase F) Gail, Wiley, Lee, Doug G) Rob, Van, Jack H) Earnest I) Miles, Jim, Matt J) Pat, Terry K) Nick, John L) Guy, Frank, Dick, Curt M) Spot (but only if you are counting dog names. LOL) N) May or Mae, Mary, Will, Harry O) Flo P) Mark Q) Mike, Rich, Randy R) Vie or Vi Written Nov. 25, 2016 For Viv Wrigley's What's in a name
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