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Premium Member Palindrome Limericks
There was a young woman named “Anna”
who spoke to her sister named “Hannah”.
“Anna” said “You’re a good “mum”
and maybe I’m just a “nun”,
but “sis”, I’m no second banana!”

Then “Anna” asked what is a “rotator”?
Does it “refer” to a ventilator?
Said a young “dad” named Adam
I really...

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Categories: second banana, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Memories of My Neighborhood

My “popcorn town”, Oak Bluffs
on Martha’s Vineyard,
always will be home to me
‘though I now live far away.
We were young when
we bought the old Victorian
with the wide wrap-around
porch. It needed a lot of work
but we fell in love with it.

Most neighbors were elderly
but very welcoming, though
our...

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Categories: second banana, absence, friendship, memory,
Form: Free verse
1 After Another
What's in your soul, what's in your heart? You don't know and you never will.
Why am I, why am I, why am I.....

No brain for a monster 'cause there's no room for a set back.
Picked up the world & then I dropped it! 
I dropped...

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Categories: second banana, childhood, girlfriend-boyfriendworld,
Form: Lyric

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