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08-05-2005, 02:24 PM
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some guy
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Frailty: an Alphabet Poem
One of the tragedies of my childhood was that I never had, or even read or heard of, The Ghastlycrumb Kids. It was an alphabet poem of rhyming couplets, each documenting how a child died. To paraphrase for example: "M is for Marge, smothered under a rug; N is for Norman, done in by a thug."
Grisly child deaths has been done, though, so let's find gentle (or damning, if you prefer) humour in verse: unflattering portraits of fictional adults, alphabetically, in rhyming couplets. 2 to a customer. Alice felt ugly, so gave herself cheap, Ben grew a beard 'cause he though it looked Deep |
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08-06-2005, 02:54 AM
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meretricious dilettante
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Alice felt ugly, so gave herself cheap,
Ben grew a beard 'cause he though it looked Deep Charles had a terribly long and weak chin, Diana barfed often so she could stay thin.
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08-06-2005, 03:56 AM
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MR. Smartypants to you.
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Alice felt ugly, so gave herself cheap,
Ben grew a beard 'cause he though it looked Deep Charles had a terribly long and weak chin, Diana barfed often so she could stay thin. Edgar told lies as a way to sound cool, Fanny sold X to her pals after school.
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08-06-2005, 04:10 AM
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no more nice girl
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Alice felt ugly, so gave herself cheap,
Ben grew a beard 'cause he though it looked Deep Charles had a terribly long and weak chin, Diana barfed often so she could stay thin. Edgar told lies as a way to sound cool, Fanny sold X to her pals after school. Graham like picking his nose with a stick Helen used to eat it until she got sick
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He really shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all. |
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08-06-2005, 11:07 AM
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some guy
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Alice felt ugly, so gave herself cheap,
Ben grew a beard 'cause he though it looked Deep Charles had a terribly long and weak chin, Diana barfed often so she could stay thin. Edgar told lies as a way to sound cool, Fanny sold X to her pals after school. Graham like picking his nose with a stick Helen used to eat it until she got sick Ingrid has only one subject: her Needs Jim finds your scab and then picks till it bleeds |
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08-06-2005, 12:47 PM
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Key Lime Pie rocks!!!
Join Date: Jan 2004
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Alice felt ugly, so gave herself cheap,
Ben grew a beard 'cause he though it looked Deep Charles had a terribly long and weak chin, Diana barfed often so she could stay thin. Edgar told lies as a way to sound cool, Fanny sold X to her pals after school. Graham like picking his nose with a stick Helen used to eat it until she got sick Ingrid has only one subject: her Needs Jim finds your scab and then picks till it bleeds Ken is so lazy he sleeps until noon Len killed his wife, sent her corpse to the moon.
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