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Forgetting Me Suits You

You look better than for ages

A healthy bloom on your skin

The way you walk so boldly

Proudly holding up your chin

 

Of course, you didn't see me

Admiring your mien so new

I must admit, against my will

That forgetting me suits you

 

Yet paradoxical as it seems

Without my baneful actions

You'd be that mouse of old

Tip-toeing about in fractions

 

Yes, I c...

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Yellow

The day you bought me a yellow tie

I first wondered at your taste

Your wedding dress was primrose

Canary yellow at the waist

 

The lounge carpet is ochre

Kitchen cabinets buttercup

Daffodil is the bathroom

The place where I throw up

 

I'm sick to death of mustard

The sheets seem a tide of amber

In bed I get quite bilious

When over you I try to clamber

 

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yellowprimroseochrebuttercupmustardambermouse

A MOUSES TAIL

“But it’s not my fault”,

cried the mouse in dismay,

“I though I knew where I was

but appear to have lost my way”

 

Sat at the foot of my bed

with his hands under his head,

he tried through his tears

to relate what is here.

 

                  *

 

I set out early this morn

after nibbling on some corn

for my breakfast, on the cob is best.

I was raring to ...

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