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dripping summer ( a n o t h e r b a s t a r d s u m m e r p o e m )
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bramble jam & sand in sandals baton bats the badger drummer panting ants as daggers dangle dads in vans & mother-truckers second spews & speckled pebbles trending as the lutist strummer kettles singing in the nettles rivers run as fingers butter bells are knelling in the steeples bumble hums a stumbled stutter spring is bread of milk & measles magic beans are on the runner witches glisten in the dingle bottles fly as piglets flutter adders nap as lions lingual tongue the salad of a nutter happenstance & ants in trousers shrews in trews as shepherds shudder rows of roses, crows & dowsers in a spin & out the udder praetor preens a prefect circle curtains sprawl a ball of rubber brawls of orbs & hurl's the turtle slipping within dripping summer ...