cinquain outtakes

back first
the boy shouted
redfaced gasping and pleased
didn't say how he'd tripped his bro
just wheezed

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of sight
I'll only say
it's a thing all of light
of how it lights upon your eyes
just right

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which eggs
do you revile?
I don't much like ostrich
and I always find crocodile
too rich

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of you
it's sometimes said
that your breath is dreadful
and that insects slowly circle
your head

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wanted:
one parachute
to avoid being hurt
failing that I'll just have to spread
my skirt

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just watch
while I eat fire
and juggle three ocelots
while reciting Pope and hanging on
a rope

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Wii Sports
and then Wii Sex
but in my snicket
if it don't make you sweat it's not
cricket

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asket
not hand bask et
hell basket handle ooh
but sketband what basket for it
can you

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the fete
was a washout
it rained over the cakes
dancing girls slipped over and made
mistakes

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glisten
go on glisten
get yourself all lustred
smear on some shiny stuff, perhaps
custard

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I flush
the dead goldfish
she smites a kettle drum
the kids watch the funeral rites
struck dumb

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trail her
until she drops
my trailer trash woman
done run off with the kids and burned
the crops

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his part
was a small one
even for the chorus
at least he didn't get time to
bore us

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sophists
like to quibble
and argue the detail
how a slug with a shell is not
a snail

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then Icke
in turquoise sheen
addressed his acolytes
warned them of that evil lizard
the Queen

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the Snore
what they call him
for the rumbling guffaw
that issues from his hoglike rump
and maw

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quite mad
is what you are
Mister Jay Harpuhay
for eating that Cadillac car
that way

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waving
a fat white goose
he ran beside the train
in his stripy blue pyjamas
snoring

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frozen
in for winter
Roald and his comrades
rather sadly began to eat
the dogs

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bring boos
the cabaret is bad
the food is just awful
and the verse is barely
lawful

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I am
that which I am
the moving force then spake
it's a shame, cried a boy, you're not
a cake

flaky
wilderness cake
make from milk and manna
then place under a burning bush
to bake
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