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swashbuckler [by leigh wells]
this town’s full of you and men like you belly-flopping their way to the next cotillion the next cotton gin you’ve got a bottle in your robe a battle up your sleeve your belt’s…
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Breathing Fiction (For Safety Reasons) [by leigh wells]
with a goat in the trunk, it’s ankles bound with love who is to say what we can and cannot do halfway between one mountain and the next hairstyle there’s a life’s work fermenting…
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Trochaic Theory Picks Obama [by David Lehman]
If you want to be president, your chances of winning office will be best if your name parses out as a trochee, preferably a double trochee, as in the case of Harry Truman, Andrew…
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“The Inventors” [by Jim Dolot]
The Inventors The man who invented spitting, Archimandrus of Boeotia, Was otherwise undistinguished, And tends to be underrated and overlooked Because of his contemporary, Thespis, Who invented the drama, and Gogulus, Who invented existentialism.…
