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    Deltaesque breakfast (response)

    I sat at the table,
    pouring marmalde on my coco pops.
    The washing machine was chewing my pants.
    Various animals with broken wings,
    mute barks and missing eyes
    littered the floor.
    Delta was by my side
    licking spilt vegemite.
    Daffy was dripping milk
    from both ends of his 'tache.
    A bird hit the window with a splat.
    One of the cats with one eye
    went to collect it.
    Haunted looked longingly at
    her empty plate.
    Hawk wandered past, mumbling
    of dragons and gargoyles.
    He looked a bit mad
    as he tripped over a passing platypus.
    Prince looked over his glasses
    expressed his wish not to appear in this poem
    and returned to his crossword.
    A pair of unmatched socks
    danced to the Blue Danube.
    Hill was dressed for todays walk
    like a nobbly knees prize winner.
    Mary looked at Daf and was inspired to write
    ' Ode to the milky moustachioed welshman'.
    Table flowers, arranged by Ang
    were taken by Haunted
    and thrown over the table like confetti,
    sticking to the vegemite,
    and obscuring 5 across.
    Outside the bin lorry
    chewed up a binman.
    'How Deltaesque', thought Delta
    painting her toenails with more vegemite.
    An unnamned croc appeared
    and nothing political was mentioned.

    For those who believe,
    no explanation is necessary.
    For those who do not,
    none will suffice.

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    Inspired!!!! Bravo!!!! Brilliant!!!! Fantastic!!!!!! (Well, it's not bad, anyway.)
    Dafydd Manton, A Legend In His Own Lunchtime!! www.dafydd-manton.co.uk

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    lol. you are now Jerryesque! I love how you capture the familiar quirks of Lit-netters. *gives a vegemite grin*
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

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    I look forward to rolling out of bed every day and going straight across the pond to Jerry's for breakfast! I'm relieved you didn't seat me next to your cereal killer. Can I stay for lunch?

    "But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
    "Oh, yes, I do."
    "In flames and torment?"
    "Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
    "That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said.
    "Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.

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    Please do - I shall invite you on his behalf, me bein' a gentleman an' all. On the menu is............Welsh Rarebit. And I leave the jokes to Jerry, which jokes are inevitable.
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    oh thanks Daf. You sure are a gentleman, the warden says so

    "But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
    "Oh, yes, I do."
    "In flames and torment?"
    "Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
    "That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said.
    "Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.

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    Matron called him something different the other day. But thats between me and her. I have no jokes. I am an artist. *brushes shoulder and walks down corridor in a velvet smoking jacket*

    For those who believe,
    no explanation is necessary.
    For those who do not,
    none will suffice.

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    Why was the corridor in a velvet smoking jacket?
    Dafydd Manton, A Legend In His Own Lunchtime!! www.dafydd-manton.co.uk

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    Daffy attacks my syntax. We were mates once. Weeps at mans inhumanity to man. passes daffy the sprouts.

    For those who believe,
    no explanation is necessary.
    For those who do not,
    none will suffice.

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    aAAAHH!! Sprouts!! MY favourite. I always get compartments on trains to myself after . Saves on heating, too!!!
    Dafydd Manton, A Legend In His Own Lunchtime!! www.dafydd-manton.co.uk

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    "Had they but one neck I would hack it through." Caligula.

    PS I'm just off to attend the inauguration of my horse as a senator...
    Last edited by Hawkman; 09-01-2010 at 07:33 PM.

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    Oh, how I enjoyed reading this poem... The litnetters should feel honoured to be mentioned in your poem, Jerry. I know I am and I am sure the others do to.
    Well done. You are one clever fellow.

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    You're a hoot, man - almost as good as the original Jerry! (But he, I'm sure, would have known to put an apostrophe in "mans inhumanity...")

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maryd. View Post
    Oh, how I enjoyed reading this poem... The litnetters should feel honoured to be mentioned in your poem, Jerry. I know I am and I am sure the others do to.
    Well done. You are one clever fellow.

    You are of course right, Mary, but don't go round telling him. We'll never hear the end of it, and you know how hyper he gets after coco pops! Just be grateful he kept off Delta's porridge!
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    what's wrong with porridge???
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

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