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all links in the chain
acquaintances and lovers
river to the sea

I am here!
I’m alive

I learn
and I thrive

More than my Mother
fare better than late Father

Still it is there
the soul of the past
injustice eats though time

I know what is rightfully mine.

Thanks for the read @CalebPerry

Yer, the trial transcript went a bit silly.

But in my defence, I'm sure I am not the first to seek inspiration by staring at the keyboard.

Ok, I'ts shite, but it amused my for a time

I just learned the non-bacon meaning of the word "Gammon",
so can I change my vote?
(Perhaps if more people knew the Gammon meaning, the votes would have been different?)

P.S> Boris seems quite adept at making new borders. One to the North as well soon it seems...

I mistrust apostrophes. Sure they are alright when in their place, sandwiched between words, just filling space, where letters should be. But let them get the last say. Let them get their own way if allowed to run feral... they will own you. Do not get fooled they can be, possessive, jealous, and un...

I Vote A,
mainly because I do not know what "Gammon" means in this context.

Also "The Border of Boris", simply because of my mistrust of the possessive apostrophe.
(Can't they just chill a bit )

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Thankyou so much Professor for your career advice, it really helped me to broaden my horizons. I have moved to Texas, and landed a great job with a new startup company called Enron . The recruitment officer was so very interested in my ideas about things being in one place, but also not being in any...

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Thankyou so much for your generous rating of my thesis, albeit not a passing score. (Pompous fossil of a curmudgeon, at least I’ll out-live the old bastard.) So informative were your insightful critiques of my assumptions, methods, presentation, data-analysis, formulae and conclusions. (Yer, I reall...

Firstly, Thank you so much Professor for taking the to time read and review my paper. (Gotta suck up to the hierarchy if you wanna get anywhere) That being said, I feel you may be misunderstanding some terms and nuance to the findings in my paper. (Gotta fight back a little, not look like a wimpy kn...

Ok, then.... (Off topic in the thread) Are you an Ant or an Aunt? Well that depends, on others. for you may be both Ant and Aunt. That is; if you have brothers Anyone can be Ant but only some can become Aunt For that is a title for others to grant Or even if you have others that judge by the skin Se...

Extensive empirical evidence, with global replication, has shown that Felis Catus Domesticus shows a marked tendency toward Inside-Outside Superposition. This superpostition is characterised by the CAT being Inside, clearly wanting to be Outside. After interaction with the force-carrier particle cal...

NotQuiteSure wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 21, 2021 2:57 pm

Don't mind me, carry on

Do I have your permission to start a new tread, clearly plagiarising your idea of Ant and Aunts?

LOL

I feel honoured to take the blame

Ants discard drones
they no longer have use for.
While Aunts have no mans,
they all died in The War.

Ants without partners
are so doting on nieces.
No grubs of their own
with all men now in pieces.



Aunt Hymenoptera?

Sorry to clutter your thread with my silliness,
it just tickled my funny-bone.

Have you thought of a title yet?
Formicidable Aunts?

Ants are sisters too
related to one-another
and Aunts share half their genes
on average,
with your mother

Aunts were once Wasps
but not with such wings
similar of colour and
sometimes with stings

Most ants are black
while some are green
But now, two aunts are black
With one in-between

Some ants can fly
Some aunts have wings
Like your aunt violet
For she is a pilot

NotQuiteSure wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:35 am

Not following you, explicate!

I'm still thinking that this piece is a good bed-time story.
The ending just seems a little too abrupt.

Do some Aunts have wings?

But seriously, you need just a few lines to finish this.
Perhaps even just one, using Sister Arithmetic.
Then the kids can all go off to sleep.

NotQuiteSure wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 17, 2021 11:32 am

Amadis wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 17, 2021 9:48 am

"Auntnest"

Nope,
that didn't make me groa,n or wince. Try harder

Aunt you supposed to be asleep by now?

Surely that gets at lest a groa,n ...

shouldn't it be 'disdain brings aggression'? I think I was thinking, that country taken by force somehow holds less intrinsic value in the heart of the thief. To be honest, I didn't do much thinking over this piece, it just poured out. Not much in the way of structure or narrative flow, it's just a...

Such good wordplay.

I see meaning in it, the kind of poem to read to child at bedtime.

I'm sure a child would derive meaning from it.
Vocabulary building and tolerance.

Cheers Not.

It is difficult to remember.

I think I remember:

The whole world as new
All things rush in as equal
Seeing I am different in others eyes.