The Wormhole Wore a Waistcoat
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She entered unannounced; no bell, no brass. The aperture, a bureaucratic lapse in Nature’s accounting, permitted transit for the curious, not the wise. Through corridors of warped conjecture, she...
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Categories:
waistcoat, fantasy, imagination, science fiction,
Form: Haibun
The Jack of Hearts
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The players were hangin’ ‘round but were all headin’ for a fall,
the room was quiet except for the drillin’ in the wall.
The curfew had been...
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Categories:
waistcoat, parody, song,
Form: Ballad
1856
...During a bad storm one night I turned on my television
Grey and black flickering lines appeared, obscuring my vision
I went outside and saw the aerial had bent over but it would have to wait
T...
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Categories:
waistcoat, dark, dream, surreal,
Form: Narrative
On the Salutations of Ginsberg To Pessoa and Pessoa's Alvaro To Whitman
...Every time I read Pessoa I think
I'm better than he is
Salutations to Fernando Pessoa-Alan Ginsberg
Me, the monocled one, with my foppish belted waistcoat,
I'm not unworthy of ...
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Categories:
waistcoat, appreciation, poetry, tribute, word
Form: Free verse
A Winter's Tale
...Clutching a sapling
no port in the storm
Torn from its moorings
No hope to keep warm
A waif of a girl
wrapped in shawl and waistcoat
She’d not survive long
her voice stuck in her thr...
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Categories:
waistcoat, girl, sad, snow, storm,
Form: Rhyme
The Jolly Little Cafe Where a Chestnut Tree Once Grew - Monologue
...There's a jolly little cafe where a chestnut tree once grew,
They serve hot bubbling tea and buttered toast,
Where the waiter wears a waistcoat which is buttoned up askew
And the waitress gl...
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Categories:
waistcoat, betrayal, first love,
Form: Narrative
Photographs of Wystan
...Above: Wystan in fancy dress
as a beetle -1912
Photographs of Wystan
One of the world's
greatest poets
in a pose, similar
to an Anne Gedde's baby
Balancing beetle antennae
hi...
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Categories:
waistcoat, books, poets,
Form: Free verse
Spaghetti - a Movie Not Made
...Smoke signals rise from Sitting Duck cavern
In town the Pitt gang are trashing the tavern
John Wayne strolled in and he ain’t here to dance
They say that he walked like he just sh*t his pants
D...
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Categories:
waistcoat, america, native american,
Form: Rhyme
Bar Entry Code: Kw3
...knowing who wore warm
kilts where
was why knots were
wound wardrobes
knitted warmest when waistcoat
kind was
woven wool keeping watchmen
warriors waiting
kindly while watching washroom
kings...
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Categories:
waistcoat, absence, drink, sick,
Form: Free verse
Riverboat Revenge, Part Ii
......The two men confirmed Fred went for his gun,
and the captain just let the whole thing be,
Lyle got up and walked out to the deck,
in the fresh air he felt able to breath.
He paced up to the ...
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Categories:
waistcoat, boat, conflict, family, loss,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Don Key and Muriel
...Don Key the Donkey
Was a silly ass
He had big donkey ears
And wore an eyeglass
Looking very dapper
And extremely smart
It was his day off from pulling his cart
He liked going out
And enjoyed ...
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Categories:
waistcoat, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Chasing Rabbit
...Chasing Rabbit
By: Iris Roberts
Chapter I
A summer day filled with joy; an everlasting dream once re...
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Categories:
waistcoat, adventure, character, confidence, journey,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Sprouting Off Truth
...Before any elaborate construction
on this fit-for-a-princess-primrose-pink
trimmed treehouse occurred, an insurrection
of rooted pulp through soil submerged the link
between its waistcoat walnut ...
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Categories:
waistcoat, children, divorce,
Form: Sonnet
White Rabbit Inc
...This white rabbit is having a hell of a day.
It started out good but ended in a bad way.
I woke up feeling marvelous and grand,
dressed up in my waistcoat, with my pocket-watch in hand.
I soo...
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Categories:
waistcoat, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Gareth Southgate
...I remember nineteen ninety six
like it was yesterday - the penalty
the way that Gareth kicked the ball and missed
I bet he never thought that day that he
would ever be back in the game again
his...
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Categories:
waistcoat, courage, england, football, hero,
Form: Sonnet
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