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Discombobulate this!

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Okay, you've got the picture, you've got the merged poem (below).  Clearly, the mad, evil  Dr. Van Kinston has been up to his old tricks again.   But, who's been cross-fertilising with whom?

Email your answers to winstonplowes@googlemail.com

 

In restaurants we argue

over which of us will pay for your funeral

 The Sergeant-major, filled with rage,

Attacked the Sergeant at this stage,

 though the real question is

whether or not I will make you immortal.

 "You careless swab! jump to it smart.

Oh strewth! You break my blinkin 'eart!"

 At the moment only I

can do it and so

 The Sergeant, starting in to cuss

Apostrophized the Corporal, thus,
 
I raise the magic fork

over the plate of beef fried rice

 "You lazy, lumberin', bosseyed lout!

Who chucked this crimson fruit about?"

 and plunge it into your heart.

There is a faint pop, a sizzle

  

LAST MONTH'S ANSWERS

 

Several people emailed the correct answer to me last month. The two individual poets and poems combined by Dr. Van Kinston were… (Drum roll)

 

Pam Ayres – I wish I’d looked after my teeth

Ted Hughes – Pike

 

I think this was an easy one just for starters.

◄ Prosody - where language and music collide

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