A sack of white flour fell off a lorry outside
a funeral
parlour. There was a funeral in progress. It
was raining
and the flour congealed and became slippy. A
man with a
haversack on his back crossing the road stepped
on a patch
of the porridgy mess ...
Whorls of branchlets swept and trailing to the
water's
rhythm, the female can be seen as a green oval
flask-shaped
surprise, the male spherical orange sculpted
exterior
that breaks into eight sections in maturity releasing
clouds ...
Throwing himself to the side of an on-coming van
and into
a cyclist's path, the front wheel jams in a drain,
the
cyclist lands on the bonnet of the van, his bicycle
topples
onto a dog sniffing a wet stain on the back tyre
of a hearse,
the van hits a bollard, the cyclist slides off,
the haver-
sack-carrier rolls to safety, an old lady looks
round,
the funeral's fiscal graphline rose, the sets
were perfect,
the lead got up.
The hearse driver looked round. The van driver
got out.
The bus stopped. Traffic lights changed red.
A goods train
trundled by on a bridge overhead: black/orange,
black/orange,
black. Frequency times length equals velocity.
Hello? Yes?
Splendid! It's a quarter past three, mid-point
in the wave ...
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As to each delicate item in the hive yr trivia
is as
engaging as my trivia. And sticks. Then palps
to the
paralysed hymenoptera: busy busy busy.
or:
a
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Sonnet
From the nine facts the typist is
Charlotte & the nurse must be Alice.
The hostess lives west of Charlotte &
Doris lives directly north of the typist.
Therefore Doris can't be the hostess.
Putting the results into a small map
it will turn out that Alice lives
four miles south & three miles west of Doris
which by Pythagoras makes the distance
five miles. And Betty, of course, is the hostess.
Maurice Scully
>>>Michael Smith
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