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curdled milk  ( klim deldruc )

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fiddlesticks & tins of peaches

sticklebacks & bees in breeches

bits of sonnets buzz in bonnets

flannels, towels & owlet screeches


rubber ducks & clouds of piffle

trouser presses, piss & spittle

parcels, marbles - garden garbles

muttered dust & specks of riddle


curdled milk & cans of custard

cuttlefish & colonel mustard

swan the song of broken biscuits

burble bursts of bastard bustard


frozen peas & apple leather

rabbits feet & sprigs of heather

all is walrus - dawn's a chorus

warring on in storming weather

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six sticks  (  s n a i l  m a i l  n o t  c h a i n m a i l  )

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stick around & tin drum


rockin' with the insects


where the sunsets don't glow


in the glues of goosegrass


worms in ears & goo sounds


switch a gear & hands up


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slime for tea  (  a n o t h e r  p o e t r y  t h i n g  )

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fingers flinch of builder's

bubble lea & broth

bramble is the scrambled

tangle in the trough


whispers whiff of vicar's

sugar suns & moons

diddle is the fiddled

riddle in the spoon


chatters chime of china's

pyramids & price

clatter is the badgered

babble in the bites


kettles sing of clippers

- dotted eyes & seas

storming is the morning's

sky in slime for tea

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