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Surreal... (Sonnet) by Yardbird

Shall I compare thee to a vacuum cleaner? Thou art more viscous and more ergonomically designed. Rough monkeys do bend the branches of my rubber-plants, And summer's eyes hath all got conjunctivitis. Sometime too often the pigeon of Bristol melts, And often is his moth-eaten toupe unkempt; And every fair from fair sometime excretes, By chance or momma's changing bowels unchained; But thy eternal hangover shall not fade Nor lose possession of that monkey thou stole; Nor shall Fulham FC brag thou scored in their history, When in Coke bottles to drink thou dry: So long as elephants can remember or stamp on mice, So long I write, and this gives me a headache.

Nicholas Monson 4-Dec-02/4:03 AM
This is very funny. You started to lose me though towards the end. And I live only half a mile from Fulham FC of which you spoke. What would our friends in the US make of your refenrences? It should be read by Richard E Grant in the manner of his brilliant performance in Withnail and I




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