Section One of Bread

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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                               tiall        by grou

                               y a p      pings o

                               oem  i    f  twent

                               s a f       y-six  q

                               lat  s      uite we

                               urfac     ll-know

                               e cov    n-symbo

                               ered      ols.

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. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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                              is
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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

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