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*** Challenge Poem 10 ***
*** 8 Man ***
by 'Barry R. Long'
I went down town
today
had some bills I had to pay
along the way I met this
funny chap
you should hear the crap that I got back
all I
said was g'day, how's it going?
then out his mouth words start
flowing
sorry if I irritate, for I am a member of club 8
never
to duplicate, twice a line we sound the ate
it's in our mandate
that we stipulate
there's no one to adjudicate the words we
manipulate
nonsense we repudiate, and meaning we incorporate
we
sometimes hyphenate, yet never do we abbreviate
occasionally
managing to titillate, normally it's just frustrate
first of
all we meditate on the conversation we wish to stimulate
language
we rejuvenate, the use of which we demonstrate
at a future time
we will affiliate, other sounds we choose to dictate
learning
skills while we orate, um' and r's we eradicate
the image that
the club to radiate, is of scholar not prostate
if a member to
retaliate, reason for he must state
he finally stopped to to
take a breath
did I want to hear the rest?
before I could
ask , are you for real?
he continued on with his spiel
I
also love to mediate, between members that can't relate
remind
not to discriminate, on the colour of
their portrait
for this likely to devastate the harmony that we
create
good fellowship we syndicate when we listen and
concentrate
while trying to elaborate, we strive not to overly
dominate
from the topic we don't deviate, therefore talking I
will terminate
before departure I will relate, this point that
I wanted to illuminate
"yes it is a good day and life is
going well"
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Copyright: Barry R. Long,
26th. March 2004
published: www.tardemstudios.co.nz - 26th.
March 2004
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