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Neverending Haiku chain

 
 
Equus
 
  1  
Mon 19 Jul, 2004 07:36 pm
Time for ravaging!
Many peasant villages
We will burn to ground
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devriesj
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 02:44 am
We will burn to ground
For we are quite flammable
Please! Don't light that match!
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drom et reve
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 04:43 am
Please! Don't light that match!
At least wait 'til we alight.
Patience rewards you.


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Equus
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 10:03 am
Patience rewards you.
Except that you were standing
In the wrong line. oops.
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boomom2
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 11:48 am
"In the wrong line, oops"
Is not a solid defence
In a court of law
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drom et reve
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 11:53 am
In a court of law,
One can undoubtably find
Old men in horse wigs.


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Clary
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 12:49 pm
Old men in horse-wigs
Pontificate mightily
In abstruse language.
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drom et reve
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 12:57 pm
In abstruse language
Becket's early plays go on:
God save the viewers!

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Clary
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 01:03 pm
'God save the viewers'
Implies televised versions
Of Waiting for Godot.
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drom et reve
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 01:12 pm
Of Waiting for Godot,
I say that there is no plot;
He missed out a lot.


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Clary
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 01:17 pm
He missed out a lot,
That chap who spent his life in
A dustbin, moaning.
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drom et reve
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 01:29 pm
A dustbin moaning's
Not a great kitchen tool, you
Stupid IKEA.

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Clary
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 01:41 pm
Stupid IKEA
Never have enough room for
All their customers.
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drom et reve
 
  1  
Wed 21 Jul, 2004 02:34 pm
All their customers
Gamble, smoke rabbits from holes:
Bush's store is poor.


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boomom2
 
  1  
Thu 22 Jul, 2004 07:19 am
Bush's store is poor
He needs a bit more up top
To fill up his shelves!
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drom et reve
 
  1  
Thu 22 Jul, 2004 07:26 am
To fill up his shelves,
The shopkeep steals plastic cups:
What a criminal!

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boomom2
 
  1  
Thu 22 Jul, 2004 11:06 am
What a criminal
Thing it is to smell roses
Without stopping first
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drom et reve
 
  1  
Thu 22 Jul, 2004 11:15 am
Without stopping first
And brushing your two teath clean,
No one will love you.


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devriesj
 
  1  
Thu 22 Jul, 2004 11:21 am
No one will love you,
you poor wretched little thing
but you are a gnat
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drom et reve
 
  1  
Thu 22 Jul, 2004 11:47 am
But you are a gnat;
I could never love you true:
We are too different.


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