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What Llama Lil Saw In Bagdad

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. I was going through some old poems and came across this written to the Challenge below.

Your challenge: 

Write a humorous narrative poem in rhyming couplets using the following ideas: 
Milton 
Eggs Benedict 
A roll-on deodorant 
George W. Bush 
An outbreak of food poisoning at 'Llama Lil's' Argentine Theme Cafe. 

There you go! What could be easier? 

You have until...well...er...you finish, I suppose.

Here is my take:

What Llama Lil Saw in Baghdad In Llama Lil's Cafe eating crackers and Stilton surveying the street and reading Milton Sits a strange and moody itinerant Icon for a well-known roll-on deoderant Under cover spy for a US president Devoid of all human sentiment On assignment he was hand picked And his code name was Eggs Benedict Perusing the pages of Paradise Lost he re-read the phrase "At no human cost" For his orders were, to him revealed between the lines of Milton concealed and I suspect, though I really can't say the reason for this strange communique Was due to the results of a wide-world survey Showing few are caught dead, reading 'poet-ray' Deep in thought on his plan of attack He heard a blonde from the table at his back Summon the waiter with fingers clicked to order a double Eggs Benedict Mysteriously, in dark glasses AND reading Milton She slipped him a note- her number at the Hilton He felt a strange rumble in his tummy He remembered how the cheese tasted funny The last thing on earth our hero has seen are the spinning walls of Lil's, Argentine theme The rest of his life flashed past his eyes Is this the way a hero dies? Super -spy and icon for a well known deoderant Killed -from effects of a straying rodent Missed his liason at the Hilton Some one mailed his copy of Milton pages torn and stained with Stilton (Yes! It was from the Bagdad Hilton!) To an address inside the cover T'was to: George W Bush or someone or other

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Date: 2/12/2022 3:16:00 PM
Wow SuZ, I could never come up with anything this ingenious! This clever plot you have created had me laughing and so impressed. I love it! Thank you for the laughter. Blessings xxoo
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Date: 1/6/2022 4:17:00 PM
Hello Suzanne ... I'm really pleased that I found this poem from the past. Great to read and very interesting - thanks Suzanne - Lindsay
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Date: 10/4/2021 6:13:00 AM
This is so entertaining, thanks for re-sharing it. ;0)
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Date: 6/16/2021 11:46:00 AM
What a fun way to combine all those words! You rose to that challenge very well. Hope you won a prize for it.
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Date: 6/13/2021 1:24:00 PM
A nice piece Suzanne penned very well with great rhyme and flow, take care, Gordon
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Date: 6/6/2021 11:59:00 PM
A tough challenge. You have great talent. Not easy to write a poem on those conditions.
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Date: 5/30/2021 2:19:00 PM
oh my, I loved your word play in here. Bush. Uggg, never could stand that president. did this happen to be in the days when we were in that group together doing writing challenges? I sure do not remember THIS one.
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Suzanne Delaney
Date: 5/30/2021 5:34:00 PM
Hi Andrea: Glad you got a laugh. It was around the same time as when we were on Kookamonga Square but at a different Forum called Burgundy Pub, an English Group I joined. It has closed now like a lot of other Forums SuZ
Date: 5/30/2021 12:49:00 PM
such a clever piece Suzanne it is not a challenge i would have jumped at writing for lol, thanks for the smiles:-) hugs Jan xx
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Suzanne Delaney
Date: 5/30/2021 1:18:00 PM
It was a tough one, Jan: …but I was much younger then….LOL SuZ
Date: 5/30/2021 10:11:00 AM
Love how you wove all these ideas into your verse creating a humourous poem. Your pens on fire today Suz. Tom
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Suzanne Delaney
Date: 5/30/2021 11:32:00 AM
Thanks Tom: Yes I love how challenges can tell the lazy Muse to waken herself. SuZ

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