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Sunday, May 21, 2023

Abandoned Ballades; Ferdinand Feghoot Meets Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     "The 'I'm Off to Maine 'n' Rarin' Ter ___...'"
in which is lyrically elucidated the Vacationland 
Sweepstakes entry form text to be completed 
by contestants as they describe their single 
favorite holiday activity in the Pine Tree State.

     "The Mange of the Rhymin' Heir...? Inter!"
in which the poem's narrator pleads that 
the lesions and scabs of the infected skin 
of his scion and beneficiary, also a poet, 
be buried with all appropriate ceremony.

     "The Range of the Miming Erin Tour"
in which is chronicled in sonnet form the 
itinerary of a company of pantomimists 
on their extended journey through Ireland.

     "The Reign of a Mime in Errant Ur"  
which relates in verse the tale of street 
performer and his elevation to the throne of 
a great city in ancient Sumer whose leaders 
mistake him for their rightful monarch.

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