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- From: damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk (Damian Jackson)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Calchra the cat is a very nice cat.
- Keywords: irresponsible, idiot, me, hundreds, if, not, thousands, of, pounds
- Message-ID: <28235@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:24:39 GMT
- Distribution: talk
- Organization: Edinburgh University
- Lines: 47
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- Flames and misnomers may scorch my
-
- champagne
- Compagnie
- Galapagos
- pagan
- page
- pageant
- pageantry
- paginate
- pagoda
- propaganda
- propagandist
- propagate
- rampage
- seepage
- slippage
- spaghetti
- stoppage
- stumpage
-
- [gole durn it - the dictionary fails me again]
-
- but spiralling inwards ever deeper until the humming
- metal blade slices through.
-
- I walk through a street thick with ducks in flight,
- their wings degraded by low quality imported diesel,
- and the memories of an orange sky.
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- Ripples in the water, otherwise still, distorting in
- one world, swirling round to give uncommon perception
- in another.
-
- Somewhere an old man is implementing a symbolic integration
- program in basic. He's happy enough, except that his dogs
- keep laughing at him, and his soup tastes vaguely of monkey.
-
- Why do all my sentences seem to break heads like marshmellows?
-
- Back to the chopping board.
-
- Damian
- damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk
- --
- No more moon in the water, ciao, etc.
-