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the puzzle shooter  (  a  p o e m  )

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parapets & paratroopers

parrots pecking speckled roosters

onion rings & solar saturn

pupils swat the ogre tutor


penguin suits & twinkled pewter

tudors smocking wrinkled suitors

battle ships & phantom caverns

dragons snap the shattered rulers


pepper pots & barracudas

puffins tooting stolen scooters

knotted vests & battered taverns

badgers blast the silver tuba


snorkel snorts & sunken scuba

drunken tinkers trawling sewers

pitta bread & splattered patterns

settle sings the puzzle shooter

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