The pattern on the wall
Once upon a time in a pattern on a wall There grew a room the size of a hall The pattern expanded and became a town But the king who ruled it had lost his crown His wife the queen was very sad She hated this pattern that drove the king mad So she summoned a jester to make the king laugh But he only knew one paragraph The queen told the jester that he was a hoax And sent him away to learn some...
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When I was a teenager I used to write all sorts of stuff, none of it made sense but some of it rhymed. Village life: I hear the people in the street The clickety clack of their feet They chit and chat all day long I myself think it’s wrong I listened once from the front room All they were talking was doom and gloom “You know Mrs Thomas from down the lanes? You know the one mun with...
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