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Delta40
08-22-2011, 12:44 PM
Hold my chin up teddy (4)
while my brain ticks over in bed.
If I strain, I might get 2ac & 13dn
Remember note is to go up (8)
between sips of sweet hot chocolate.
My pen taps in time with the rain
beating against the roof.
In Oslo, Americans see top garden soil (4)
I'm so alive. 38 more crosswords to go...
yet still I'm bright eyed and

Bushy tailed?

You're a cliche clue that just slipped out so get lost.

Oh you're just saying that because it's too cryptic!
Tomorrow is forever (7)
10ac. A sailor finding answers to...

You mean absolving?

You're good! No I mean it.
Here! stop gazing into the hand mirror
like Narcissus. (4-4)

Psst everyone! I think that might be 20ac

I'm snuggling further under the quilt
I don't want my brain to explode.
Enough with the thinking already!
33ac is a done deal.
Omg! It's Eyesore! I got it, I got it!

Yeah well curl up and go to sleep.
Forget words and lateral thinking.

Aw but I like to study the boxes,
the black
the white
the black,

Ha! This is the only time you can look at life that way.

Gee that's the toughest clue yet. Do you know the answer?

Not this girl. I spend my time sorting through anagrams and scribbles
See how they meld into inky hieroglyphics
for my alter-ego to sweep into a dust pan
and sprinkle their obscure meaning onto the heads
of Roman passer-bys? (5-8)

Wow! I'll never find the answer to that in a million years.

That's because you need to fill in the spaces,
the gaps, all those voids, chasms, hollows
Because?
because, and this is important
Another clue?

No. What else is there? (4-3)

Give me that bloody teddy and turn the light out.

Hawkman
08-22-2011, 04:16 PM
This is a wonderful monologue, Delta, but I confess I was rather distracted by the crossword clues. Sort of slowed me down a bit lol.

Delta40
08-22-2011, 06:34 PM
This is a wonderful monologue, Delta, but I confess I was rather distracted by the crossword clues. Sort of slowed me down a bit lol.

Yes! But do you know the answers?

MystyrMystyry
08-22-2011, 07:28 PM
I don't know the answers (haven't tried a cryptic in yonks) but the idea (and ideas) are magic :)

Delta40
08-22-2011, 07:38 PM
Could not sleep AT ALL lastnight!

Bar22do
08-23-2011, 02:01 AM
I think the concept of this poem is absolutely fantastic. I never do crosswords (too ignorant) but this poem - ah. Where is your well of originality?