The Spoonbill Generator Archive

An Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
1996–2007

Poems by Year: 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007

*** Hall of Fame — Alphabetical List of Titles — Index of First Lines

		Title	First line

Poem: The Blue Poem
	1996 Jun 1	This Gastronomical Headboard	I have it in mind to purchase a pie
	1996 Jul 1	Voluntary Pith	Barquentine of Arkansas, the dismal oaf here,
	1996 Sep 5	Undeniably Awash	Zernebock howls.
	1996 Nov 12	Blow-torch Conquests	Neither of the archetypes was very much in vogue
	1996 Nov 28	Frisson	What I say is seldom what I mean,
	1996 Dec 10	Shakespearean Temptation	Fourteen tubes of toothpaste mark my grave
	1996 Dec 15	Soar, churlish repetiteur!	Day breaks like a condor's egg
	1996 Dec 24	The Furnishing Witches, or Lucy's Festive Wager	Wit of pig and limb of bat
	1997 Jan 4	My Favorite Plunderings	'Twas a frothy foam upon the wake
	1997 Jan 12	My Ingot Balloon	Translations of ancient words,
	1997 Jan 26	Whipped Blood Pudding Regrets	I never met a sailor who could sing
	1997 Feb 2	Hanging (Tidal)	Key of diamonds, tempest
	1997 Feb 6	Aphorisms for Unseen Swine	A kiss and a cuddle
***	1997 Feb 19	Invisible Sandwiches - The Tiresome Beginnings	She found the smoothest stone,
	1997 Feb 28	More Paraffin for my PerpetualApprentice	The sun and moon kiss in the light of day
	1997 Mar 10	Perpetual Nestled Teacups	It's not my cup of tea
	1997 Mar 18	Albert Questions The Benighted Cauliflower	What tremor racks my boneless foot?
	1997 Mar 30	Lifeless Sheds	We were down to obsolete zero
	1997 Apr 17	Toxic Fishpudding Blues	Blue notes pour from the sax in the corner
	1997 May 12	The Implacable Syphon	The shadow cabinet-maker
	1997 Jun 7	Fifteen Oblique Whiskers	A table of kinship for all the world's cats
	1997 Jun 28	Why Force Can Rescue Folly	Feeling queasy, turning green
	1997 Jul 9	One Last Later	Betrayed! The voyeur's curtain
	1997 Jul 30	Surplus Penguins	Burn my Waiting-List
	1997 Sep 8	Can poignant rubbish be reliable?	This is the way the lady rides
	1997 Sep 18	The Pan Holds Mixed Croutons	The doctrine of a shining spoon
	1997 Oct 7	Yes, Longer	Now the tyrant knows the truth
	1997 Nov 6	Michaelangelo's Lewd Little Brother	Frequently, my brother speaks
	1997 Nov 22	"Tomorrowismybirthday" cried Katharine's Wedding	Pile a hailstone on a hailstone
	1997 Dec 9	Breakfasting Traditionally	An arbitrary asp might say,
	1997 Dec 14	Of Struggling Poets and Pious Days	A ghastly mismeasure of woman,
***	1997 Dec 28	Swimming While Drowned	Who were the Bewlay Sisters
	1998 Jan 21	Maybe Mercury Speaks	Scared of every footfall
	1998 Jan 30	Music, Unless...	While I was walking my dog on the moon
	1998 Feb 9	The Moon Promises My Friend an Apricot	Bind me to a broken bench
	1998 Feb 17	Borrowing Twilight	Come, Luggage! There's a curious world I'm longing to explore
	1998 Feb 26	Gossamer Binary Cheesburger	Perhaps it was something I said,
	1998 Mar 2	Jesus pondering a delightful catachresis	Beneath the tea tree sits the gnome,
	1998 Mar 9	No Parsley for Matilda's Fruitcake	By chance, are you going my way?
	1998 Mar 13	Arnold, Waiting	Surely Godot should be here by now,
	1998 Mar 17	Only Ingrid Soothes This Eyeball	Your cobwebs (your cosmetics)
	1998 Mar 21	Zimmerman's Sour Grapes	My lamp-post charm, my seventh life
	1998 Mar 31	Witness My Self-important Bitumen	When syrup happens to congeal
	1998 Apr 24	Alice's Adventures in the Improbability Pie	Alice threw the looking-glass
	1998 May 2	Once We Devoured Magma	At last I have the chance to spread my wings and versify
	1998 May 9	Benedict the Monstrous Toadstool	Behind each King or potentate
	1998 Jun 3	Nine Beatles Glimpsing Salvation	There was, perhaps, a waving arm,
	1998 Jun 7	The mystified Walrus construction	Unpredictable grammar,
	1998 Jun 30	Bedazzled by Our Daphne's Pebbledash	Flying at thirty-eight times the speed of sound
	1998 Jul 21	Behind Every Grimacing Badger...	Kropotkin claimed that all he saw
***	1998 Aug 7	Theory Comes Later	One: a sponge, of medium girth
	1998 Aug 10	Beyond Anatomical Possibilities	If, halfway down the basement stairs,
	1998 Sep 30	Shirley's Dancing Socks (or Ellen's)	Socks! My red socks,
	1998 Oct 24	Caroline Rembrandt Remembered Backwards	Buckets of mud and acres of slime are all that I need
	1998 Nov 23	Coat-Hanger Equity	Scorn these still-born architects
	1998 Dec 11	Puberty with Cheeseburger	Of course
	1999 Jan 5	Cherubic Implant in My Succubus	Lazy day, bowl o' porridge before me
	1999 Jan 7	All But There	There's a THERE there all right
	1999 Jan 11	Cyber-Pogrom	Give me a goat and a piece of old rope and I walk right along to the fair
	1999 Jan 18	Is of Night	The smiles I get when I dance around the bar
	1999 Jan 22	Zen Catfood	Calm throat fortune
	1999 Jan 25	Very East Nineveh	By dint of subtle mime
	1999 Jan 26	Walk, don't sniffle and you won't get it	When I was walking this I saw:
	1999 Jan 30	Earth Telegram	A shrew without wings
	1999 Feb 2	Ferdinand's Elm	A grey seal, with grace of an eel
	1999 Feb 8	The Helicopter's Plenitude	Triceratops, my maiden aunt
	1999 Feb 11	Blemishes	I never saw a clean sweep
	1999 Feb 15	Forever Strontium	Plug me in a catheter if there are any left
	1999 Feb 20	Naked Globe	Rosemary...comfrey... cammomile tea,
	1999 Mar 1	Colditz Rhythm	Hellespont and Hecuba were walking down the street
	1999 Mar 8	Blamirog's Prophetic Landfall	Blamirog was wondering about the Blessed Isle
	1999 Mar 20	Cessations in Cocktail-Waitressing	Catastrophe has happened on a scale that Pride forbids
	1999 Apr 4	A Dire Tenderness	Never deny that I warned you
	1999 Apr 9	Easter Greetings	Resurrection!
	1999 Apr 15	Uncle Gomez's Dinosaur Eggs	Acres of acrid slime do not make a garden
	1999 Apr 23	Wizened Thoughts for Yesterdays' Leak	Tesseracts were falling as if falling were the rage
	1999 Apr 24	Unwound wherries aloft	Calesthenic interprobes are launched into the Sun
	1999 May 18	Further from the Beatiful Foot	The rate of completion increases
	1999 May 30	Zinc Oxide Alarum	When Hydrogen confounded Zinc
	1999 Jun 17	Remember My Helicopter?	Never in the history of this our Mother Earth
	1999 Aug 6	For My Bunny Rabbit	'Give me back my arquebus!', cried Randolph Great the Third
	1999 Aug 23	Full Confession for the Titans	Pay up! Pay up! It's not a game, you know
	1999 Sep 6	Hugo Onerous (Episode1)	Where, oh where is the Phantom Menace
	1999 Sep 28	Banana Wapentakes	How hairy is my nose, do you suppose?
	1999 Oct 14	Ahab Still Got Those Almighty Moonshine Blues	All dressed up and nowhere to go
	1999 Oct 25	Map of the Primitive Song	Sleep, curly savage, on the forest floor.
***	1999 Nov 1	Over-baked blossom	Now listen, please. I've brought you here
	1999 Nov 12	Fermenting the Woman from the Surgery	Achilles stole my hobby-horse
	1999 Nov 23	The Herrings' Adieu (Striding Akimbo)	Mortar, crust of lies
***	1999 Dec 1	Stacy's Fading Cardigan	The autumn leaves
	1999 Dec 14	Thinking Allowed	I think that I shall never see
	2000 Jan 3	Protracted Metrical Hermeneutic Festivities	As Christmas nears I lift my pen
	2000 Jan 6	Try Sucking Your Ear Under Water	When lightning strikes at midnight
	2000 Jan 10	The Cracked Omnipotence	Trim
	2000 Jan 14	The Whatsit, Evermore	Time stands still; the bullet hangs in the air
***	2000 Jan 18	A Behavioural Thesis	You giants! You, who from this crag
	2000 Jan 21	Unfastening Tycho's Forbidden Bra	One has to keep one's end up, after all:
	2000 Jan 22	Turbulence in the Belfry	Respiration - who's to blame?
	2000 Jan 29	Weathered Wedding: The Empyrean Dust	It wasn't my intention to rebuild the world at large
	2000 Feb 2	The Superlunary Hairdryer	My skeleton, in bony dreams
	2000 Feb 7	No Thinner Knot	Casually, through the wall
	2000 Feb 13	Kenneth: My Monster Pilot	Cover me with asphalt as they do in Donegal!
	2000 Feb 16	My Hamster, Utterly Exhausted By Trepanning	I sing of beauty and a boy's endeavour
	2000 Feb 29	Apsley's Painful Direction	Arabella Spommit and her shapely cousins three
	2000 Mar 11	The Dismembered Thumbs	Before taking part in this scandalous hoax
	2000 Mar 15	Because Foam Canisters Iridesce	She cries, that's all she ever does
	2000 Mar 17	Philosophers Lacking Reason	When Kierkegaard was down-at-heel
	2000 Mar 18	The Tribunal of Paradoxes	Your words will be remembered through the years
	2000 Apr 3	Explode, My Foot!	Give me a piece of hoary old leather!
	2000 Apr 9	My Warning Ignored	Arabella Spommit wrote her cup-size on a mouse
***	2000 Apr 10	Round/Arabesque	Do not cry, my darling, do not cry
	2000 Apr 11	Fleeing Another Bloody Tuesday	Is this all
	2000 Apr 12	Bacon Vortex	I woke to find the world undone
	2000 Apr 12	Your Undoing	By portents, like the sun's eclipse
	2000 Apr 17	The Callously-Burnt Marathon	Like this sample of elation
	2000 Apr 27	Slithy Again	'Twas brillig and the coach and four
	2000 May 8	My Articulate Cucumber Says	Teasing and tempting is naughty Nanette
	2000 May 14	In Africa, Hoplessly Lost	We don't regret the cakes that glisten in the sand
	2000 May 15	Fingering Second Every Town	While blotting my escutcheon
	2000 May 16	Embezzlement	When Ogden Nash ran out of cash
	2000 May 16	Matters Heretical	In Spring
	2000 May 17	Awkwardnesses Committed Unknowingly By Archangels On Speed	My mind's eye, all in sepia
	2000 May 18	Polemic Polarity	Hamstrung by a woollen noose
	2000 May 22	Plangent Daily Wailing	Cadences so swift and deft that man could hardly follow
	2000 May 24	Anti-Dandruff Cornflakes	A kangaroo I used to know
	2000 May 30	Cautiously Urging, Redundantly Purging	If my ardour flickers
	2000 Jun 1	Jesus With Underdone Omelette	In this unspeakable foreboding year, our doom
	2000 Jun 6	Jeeves Arranged My Spangled Smoking Jackets Elegantly	I like to eat cheese in the High Pyrenees
	2000 Jun 9	Nanette Newman's Naughty Knickers Say "Oh! Oh! Oh!	There was a young man from Kilbride
	2000 Jun 12	Lemmings Explode When Roped To Dynamite	Please help me grease my hamster said the Queen
	2000 Jun 14	Give It Some Welly Now!	To think of bursting as a chore
	2000 Jun 20	Vacuum Cleaners Constructed Entirely Out Of Anabaptist Dogma	A rabid armadillo with a beanbag on its head
	2000 Jun 26	Butcher's Lament On Nothing	What sort of dog is this? I hear you ask
	2000 Jul 11	Henderson's Decline	'Why have you tied up Granny?' the little girl was asked
	2000 Jul 24	Guildford, Epping, Tooting	When you proposed this concert
	2000 Aug 4	Icy Privy	The green in a bluebottle's eye
	2000 Aug 13	Wattle Orb Brie (Summer)	Whatever happened to summer?
	2000 Sep 3	Gratia nobis fructus agimus benedicte nisi veniam purpuriens	Spry raindrops against a beercan tinkle
	2000 Sep 27	Earthly Salutes	Perhaps it was just that the Fates took a hand
	2000 Oct 19	My Song of Glass	Sleep darkly in your mellow haze my love,
	2000 Oct 30	Cullington's Theorem	There, dancing on my cranium
	2000 Nov 3	Neapolitan Bore	Galisha ga-galoosha
	2000 Nov 6	Bribes Inspire Returning MPs to Define Themselves as Caterpillars	Costorphine was a Cuttlefish
	2000 Nov 7	Our Mutinous Ukulele	Skiing down a snow-filled tunnel
	2000 Nov 8	Failure Threaded By Screws	A wallaby, tried in a kangaroo court
	2000 Nov 22	Meanwhile, Back Under the Duvet...	A kangaroo tried in a wallaby court
	2000 Nov 25	Stories, Confabulations and Tears	Bright she was
	2000 Dec 9	Stroll Across The Pier	When Sullivan was just a lad, his father went to see
	2000 Dec 16	Tempestuous Trousers of Thrace	Put yourself in your neighbour's shoes
	2000 Dec 22	Sundial Shines	How about this new departure:
	2001 Jan 6	Finnegan's Ascending Nostril	Alphabetic poetry often can
	2001 Jan 8	Brothers in Canberra	The kangaroos are at the aquarium?
	2001 Jan 9	Going off the Boil	If love cannot foretell the past
	2001 Jan 15	Making Nuns	Sheila was my first love, and she was just a hake
	2001 Jan 17	I, Diamond Jim	Thumb screws , finger nails
	2001 Jan 24	Unhappy Stampede	Now, here's a story
	2001 Feb 2	The Truth Beyond Ginger	Whipping in ocean tides and winds of the Sicak peninsula
	2001 Feb 3	Birds - So?	Those onomatopoeic words
	2001 Feb 8	Geometry Crawls Nightwards	Their shop lay in a triangle
	2001 Mar 25	Conquer the Bandits of Love!	Remembrance is a form of rhubarb
	2001 Apr 13	Hook Performance	In the deepest part of the pool
	2001 Apr 24	Billiards, or Might My Love Be Undying?	Bianca grabbed me by the throat, and said I was a little stoat:
	2001 May 14	Flange Matrix - Paradise Of The Stars	Bubbles float up grassy-treed slopes
	2001 May 23	Palace Challenge to the Party	It's a noble bird, is your gannet
	2001 Jun 6	Dali's Uncle's Duckpond of Filth	In an old ball of string
	2001 Jun 19	Tennyson's Elbow Transplant	I glanced upon your book last night -
	2001 Jun 29	Tooth Drill In Sandwich Town	When rank delusion soils the mind
	2001 Jul 20	Misspelt Youth Syndrome	A saucer of sour milk for my companion!
	2001 Jul 27	Surprise Ending	A lamb-chop once asked me
	2001 Aug 7	Mutable, Suitable, Inscrutable	Hidboult was a wanderer
	2001 Aug 9	The Oyster Interval	In the palace of my mind, a lonely spirit walks.
***	2001 Aug 12	Noah often said that it was lucky to stick herrings to trees	The rain poured down; the waters rose,
	2001 Aug 18	Forget Neptune	Trumpets are green
	2001 Sep 5	My Mendacious Honey	I lie to you always, as sugar to spice
	2001 Sep 6	Browsing Police	When to the summons I brought my fist
	2001 Sep 13	Occasionally I Have Fallen Ill	When I was living with an elk
	2001 Sep 26	A Pleonastic Admirer of Superfluous Nuns	The men in Berlin are terribly thin
	2001 Oct 1	Our Northern Weeds Notwithstanding	Outside the gates of Swindon
	2001 Oct 5	The Warped Toboggan (Auden Medal Awarded Posthumouly)	In the burrows of the Nightmare
	2001 Oct 5	Who to Blame?	Would you like to be a Womble?
	2001 Oct 8	Immer mit Einheit	When Apsley dreams of Arabella Spommit,
	2001 Oct 10	Saved By The Old Handbags Again	Architecture! Drifting slow
	2001 Oct 16	Disused Mouse	Teal creeps
	2001 Oct 31	Bartók's Drawing-Room	In a dream, I bit off my boss's leg
	2001 Nov 12	Slice My Sausage Thinly, Samantha	When I was young and fancy free
	2001 Nov 16	Unknown in Civilised Combat	Forests crash about my ears
	2001 Dec 7	Skywards in Epping's Impenetrable Parkland	'I hear you have a speaker-phone'
	2001 Dec 10	Stolen Kissograms in Ketchup	Such is cockaleekie,
	2001 Dec 11	Unnecessary Tits	In Narnia, the earthworms say,
	2001 Dec 14	Other Presentiments of Scoutmasters from Bothnia	Remembering his empty purse
	2001 Dec 23	Noontide Passion	The drips from his ten-gallon hat
	2002 Jan 2	Lately Confused Shirts	As he jumped from the peak of the mountain of Slibb
	2002 Jan 3	Mackenzie is Certainly Faster	All the lonely people
	2002 Jan 8	Diaspora With Noodles	Now is the time for Algood men
	2002 Jan 9	The Reborn Tuna Despair for Mayonnaise	'Twas on a moonsoaked midnight
	2002 Jan 14	Benign Impostures	This egg, which sank in mercury,
	2002 Jan 17	Dewdrop Whack, Martini Later...	The blancmange spoke, in rhyming couplets,
	2002 Jan 31	Crying Again	Don't give me your usual whinge!
	2002 Feb 4	Silently Fabulous	Glutinous grist is my dish of the day,
	2002 Feb 7	69 Servants	The artichoke eyed the chili pepper with murderous contempt
	2002 Feb 22	Any child can puke Beethoven's last minuet	The trouser-press is waiting for
	2002 Mar 5	When You Dangle Your Sister in Alabaster	I wandered lonely, as a clod
	2002 Mar 13	Menu, Unaware of Lurking	I can't abide a burnt-up pie
	2002 Mar 15	Thus Spake the Dingo Baker	A thimble, filled with tepid brine
	2002 Mar 20	Revenge of the Defecating Cutlery	Cuttlebone, my next of kin
	2002 Mar 22	Dubious Factory	When, in the night, I start to doubt
	2002 Apr 2	Schrödinger Blue	Gusts and mists are just the stuff of dreams...
	2002 Apr 4	Hannibal's Eggcup	Faint amalgam, fashioned quite
	2002 Apr 11	Caesar and the Suprise Chicken	When no Esquimau obtains
	2002 Apr 24	Begone! Said The League of Ostriches	When first I woke upon this day,
	2002 Apr 28	Whenever Sacrifice Demands	Such anger; incoherent rage
	2002 May 1	Big, Dangerous Camel	A feather riding high upon a wave of breeze
	2002 May 9	Flood-plain Eembargoes	Once upon a greyhound dreary,
	2002 May 13	Mr Leather Roasted Little Squid	What dire offence from am'rous causes springs
	2002 May 15	My Helium Pancakes Notwithstanding	When I consider how my light is spent,
	2002 May 20	Wood-daemon, Guide Me South!	The bittern is a curious bird, according to the sage
	2002 May 27	TV Chasm and Clitoral Yawning	Might I dream once more? Of russet dawns and clouds?
	2002 May 31	Just Icing the Mind	I love the sound of ice cubes when
	2002 Jun 28	Squirrel-bitten, the Similes Decay	My love is like a rushing stream, of vigour full and free,
	2002 Jul 10	During Gordon's Last Gloaming	Apostles of the menopause
	2002 Jul 17	Lent Without Sister Amelia	A slice of cake, soaked in madeira,
	2002 Jul 18	These are Vagaries	Oh, why solicit further scorn
	2002 Jul 23	Mouldy, They Said	That artichoke they gave me
	2002 Jul 24	Unlikely Bovine Dreams	I sent a message - to an elk?
	2002 Jul 26	Dark of Wanton	Know how the filbert leaps
	2002 Jul 29	Abigail	On Thames' Embankment, bright spring day
	2002 Aug 8	Transplant for Triplets (Under Local Anaesthetic)	The funny thing is, remarked Smith
	2002 Aug 16	Stupid Polar	The rain it raineth every day
	2002 Aug 30	Artem and I	Accipiters offend her by slaying unborn lepus
	2002 Sep 10	Side-Salad Mechanisms	As the world wheels it way around the sky
	2002 Sep 23	Sharing Lulu's Breakfast	Guile ... beyond its main intent,
	2002 Oct 1	Conference for Solo Banjo	I sent a parcel trhough the post?
	2002 Oct 2	Grappling infrequently with the engine-driver's antibodies	These comedy moths
	2002 Oct 3	Not Lovers	Ventriloquists with salmonella
	2002 Oct 3	This Lunch-Box of Fate	When toast-eating poets have eaten their fill
	2002 Oct 4	The Victorian Philistines	The entire world is as a foreign place
	2002 Oct 14	Laconic as Pestilence	Marge sees not her hem's afire,
	2002 Oct 22	Telephone in a Wishing Well	I woke up this morning as blue as your eyes
	2002 Oct 29	Dali's Baby Next Time	The vandal! I dread
	2002 Oct 31	Raptures of Our Lady Bromide	Let her curl up and sleep on the railway
	2002 Nov 5	Queen Adelaide's Shapely Bozos	Twas' once the perfect time for wrath,
	2002 Nov 12	A Fourth Shortcake Detector	Continuous as the sharks that dine
	2002 Nov 12	The Submarine Horizons	A biscuit and a cup of tea
	2002 Nov 19	My No Nonsense Dream	A Roland and an Oliver!
	2002 Nov 22	Sing for Switzerland, Salesperson!	Blue Degrees or Royal Arch, in time,
	2002 Nov 27	Cactus Mothering	The lawn was laid
	2002 Nov 27	Bluebells for Another Day	Behold the poet, in her shack!
	2002 Nov 27	Digging Around The Graveyard	For once a poem with no drawn-out themes
	2002 Nov 27	Chutney Feathers	Without my knife and apron,
	2002 Nov 28	Phenomenology for Carrots	My philosophy is very clear
	2002 Nov 28	Judith, A Polynomial	In my glass kimono
	2002 Nov 29	Hugo's Goats	Hideous smells
	2002 Dec 5	Knowing About Astromancy	My new Gemini space-craft leaks
	2002 Dec 9	Tendencies (Lapsed)	Who pollutes the Muses
	2002 Dec 10	Ho, Whoreson Pimp!	The alphabet should be curtailed:
	2002 Dec 12	Venezuelans and Their Hated Sisters	Christmas gloom is coming soon
	2002 Dec 15	Chocolate Elvis During Sessions	Oh! My sombrero is the finest,
	2002 Dec 27	Where are Nelson's Aubergines?	I put my trousers in the press
	2003 Jan 2	Alexandrian Wish Warrior	Upon a star I wished one day
	2003 Jan 8	Gloves of Careful Nutmeg	Like rising, having slept for years,
	2003 Jan 10	With Alewife Entwined	'My suspenders came from France...', the naughty minx confessed,
	2003 Jan 22	What Are Flemish Trousers?	Astride the edge of any knife
	2003 Jan 23	Ferocious Nightgowns	In dread of the foe
	2003 Jan 24	Orfeo The Ineluctable	As lame as a fish
	2003 Jan 29	Autocratic Penitent	Sailing down the seventh stream
	2003 Feb 5	Herring Orphans of All Totnes	How horrid is the elephant
	2003 Feb 20	First Downtime	Emollient, conciliatory, I ventured
	2003 Mar 11	Mountainous Piques	What God did on the seventh day
	2003 Mar 18	Hidden By Hygiene Fairies	If only these kids knew what I
	2003 Mar 20	Broken SmARTISTS	It be not hard to speaketh like the Bard
	2003 Apr 9	When Did Gingersnaps Vanish From Human Knowledge?	I took a penguin on the tram
	2003 Apr 17	Carefulness Begets Sincerity	A poem's frail corpse is like a tree
	2003 May 1	Looters	Alas! The Golden Treasury has been looted
	2003 May 10	Pugna Porcorum	I put lobsters in her sock drawer
	2003 May 15	Succulent Retching	Complacent as the Minotaur
	2003 Jun 5	Spin-doctors Confused	There's too little gristle and not enough fat
	2003 Jun 16	Necessary foreign horrors	I trimmed that lean bazooka
	2003 Jun 17	Another Darwin	An airworthy albatross alights atop an arch
	2003 Jun 19	The Ocelot Tirade	Respectable he's surely not
	2003 Jun 20	For an Unknown Frog	The semi thrummed o'er seams in the open road
	2003 Jun 21	Test Our Mutual Felicity with Unguents	His brain slightly mangled from mid-term exams
	2003 Jun 22	Pig Lint Hit	My blog is narcissistic, though its readers, voyeuristic,
	2003 Jun 22	Telling Tales of Mother's Bullseye	You shouldn't keep an apple
	2003 Jun 23	If You Could Falter	The glamour of a teaspoon
	2003 Jun 23	The Mistake	I heard him curse, I heard him groan
	2003 Jun 24	Reveal the Masonic Prudes	I heard him curse, I heard him groan
	2003 Jun 24	Perwinkle Trout Wrack	His boots were made of manta ray,
	2003 Jun 24	Car with Contrast Fetish	When young and old, the old and new
	2003 Jun 27	Oddments of the Blonde	The gypsy's skirts swirled like the leaves in the fall
	2003 Jun 30	Now Repercussions Don't Hibernate	You asked for a list of excuses,
	2003 Jul 9	Chronic Sparrows of Pathology	Anthrax! Anthrax! cried Frau Schmetterling
	2003 Jul 11	Accessible Under Hegemony	To thy nobility am I obliged
	2003 Jul 17	Mosquitos Hatched by Homework	Bill bought broken bric-a-brac
	2003 Jul 17	Contrary Mutant	So here begins a brand new tale
	2003 Jul 17	How Often Tattooed?	How seldom do I see a frump
	2003 Jul 17	Time and Chance Combine in a Shocking Display of Crudity	A masterpiece will now unfold
	2003 Jul 17	Thoreau Toejam	Do mugwumps ever feel the ache
	2003 Jul 17	Nightlong Battles	Once upon a time a whore
	2003 Jul 17	Merry Googling	On the first day of Google, my search term was to be
	2003 Jul 17	Mushroom	Galumphing through the daisy field
	2003 Jul 17	Gorgonzola Prevaricates	My gorgonzola often swells
	2003 Jul 17	Of Rubrics	Persnickety wickets, aha!
	2003 Jul 17	Iceman	No man is an igloo
	2003 Jul 18	Alas My...	If not for that one "mistake"
	2003 Jul 18	Yesterday Doesn't Go Like This	Yesterday, all my poetry rhymed beautiflay
	2003 Jul 18	Colours	Red, green, purple, brown
	2003 Jul 18	Silicon Dreams	My computer's on the blink
	2003 Jul 18	Just As Jurassic	Upon the plain the stegosaurus
	2003 Jul 18	Animals (Oz)	If I ever had a platypus
	2003 Jul 18	Bodies	Her nipples were quite octagonal
	2003 Jul 18	Please Don't Try	I wish to call attention
	2003 Jul 18	Brief Glimpses of Aqua Nova	While cycling through the clouds one day
	2003 Jul 18	Pyramids	When mummies in their sarcophagi
	2003 Jul 18	Drawn	Irresistibly, I feel drawn
	2003 Jul 18	Quantum World	Photons green and neutrons pink
	2003 Jul 18	Dreams	How oft in wet dreams do I walk
	2003 Jul 18	Nighttown	On a night in september, 1982
	2003 Jul 18	Death, Shrug Off the Useless Punctuation	Cholera, my only friend
	2003 Jul 19	Foresight in F Minor (Haydn)	Where have our old-timers gone?
	2003 Jul 19	Things Of The Wild Unknown	The haughty hippotamus spake unto the King:
	2003 Jul 19	Gadfly Pudding	Side by side sat F & N, with monitors opposed,
	2003 Jul 19	Thaw	(haiku) Little lips and toes
	2003 Jul 19	Nocturne Oy	In adamantine underpants the slavish sleeper slept,
	2003 Jul 19	Garbanzos	Falafel was not feeling well
	2003 Jul 19	Whacky	Lapwings on my shoulders, nickels in my purse
	2003 Jul 19	Melodies by Journeymen	Moving softly through the symphony
	2003 Jul 20	Nippising	There was a strange lad from Ontario
	2003 Jul 20	Paris Blemished	The last time I saw Paris
	2003 Jul 20	Uncertain	(haiku) He spoke haltingly
	2003 Jul 20	Giggling Idols	What of Phaeton, Hyperion, Icarus, the angel Lucifer?
	2003 Jul 21	Ivor the Besotten	Unbeknown to Ivor Pooter
	2003 Jul 22	Comeuppance to Astroturf	I always knew that I'd be back
	2003 Jul 22	History Repeats Itself Itself Frequently Despite Appearances To The Contrary	Ten thousand men have lost their lives
	2003 Jul 23	Tonight delights us lovingly, but ...	The lamps are lit, the table set, the goose is in the oven
	2003 Jul 23	Stinky Feet	(haiku) I think your feet stink
	2003 Jul 23	Agog at the Freaks	Whatever are you doing, Mr. Trimble?
	2003 Jul 23	Untold Grinkles do the Zink	When grinkles with the morgles bink
	2003 Jul 24	Hills Speak of Chlorine	The old mountain holds a secret
	2003 Jul 24	A Homerian Epic of Anglicans in Peru	There was an old man from Peru
	2003 Jul 24	The Long Thin	Dispense with long narration
	2003 Jul 25	Poetry and Excess	There was a man from Timbuktu
	2003 Jul 26	People Ran for the Butter	"Relax", I say, but they never obey
	2003 Jul 26	The Bitter End (Alas I Died Homeless)	Alas! Oy vey! My tires are flat
	2003 Jul 26	You can't Have Sushi	Have you ever dated Lucy?
	2003 Jul 26	Travelling with Someone	Anonymously the poems flow
	2003 Jul 27	Parental	"You smell bad, Father William," the young man said,
	2003 Jul 28	Lips You can Kiss	I should've screwed old what's her name
	2003 Jul 28	Horseback Spirits of the Ghost Town	On a dusty road in an outback town
	2003 Jul 29	Something Counts	Zero was an astronaut
	2003 Jul 31	A Story About Her Master's Mustache	It might've been his husky voice
	2003 Jul 31	Look Askance	Little girl, look in the window. What do you, what do you see?
	2003 Jul 31	Fogey	Now here is a story, it's really quite gory and really quite sad to relate
	2003 Aug 1	Why you never dared tell the Pope about Mother Hubbard	Why do you chide me when you could ride me?
	2003 Aug 1	Nightmares in a Mind Overtaken by Madness After Sleepless Days and Nights	If you had but one final chance
	2003 Aug 1	Fishing for the Deal Makers	This time, Sam, we'll make a deal
	2003 Aug 1	Pick You What	Whatchamacallit and thingamajig
	2003 Aug 2	Free at Halloween	The house was haunted, so they said
	2003 Aug 3	Visiting the Mortals	In San Francisco, on the trams
	2003 Aug 5	The Best Guests	With operatic splendour did the door-bell sweetly chime
	2003 Aug 5	Skin	Does your skin keep you warm in the night?
	2003 Aug 6	New Battles for Deceit	You stood trembling
	2003 Aug 7	A Three-Life Exercise	Life is like a coconut
	2003 Aug 7	Why do the Spanish Never Use Toasters?	I've never met a man I didn't like.
	2003 Aug 8	Spin Skipper, My Ass	There once was a hack called Andrew Gilligan
	2003 Aug 9	Kangaroo Den	She prayed that she might never see the day
	2003 Aug 11	Autumn, Aimless, Now Upon Us	Haiku with me please
	2003 Aug 11	Food	In the pages of a dusty book
	2003 Aug 11	The Alphabet Tastes Best Cold	Angry aged alsations
	2003 Aug 12	Cremated For Bystanders	Alan Aardvark ate apples
	2003 Aug 12	Jonah On War	There was once a man in a tale
	2003 Aug 13	Mother One	Mother Theresa sported a wart
	2003 Aug 14	Dead Sticks	Sticks and stones may break my bones
	2003 Aug 14	He-she me?	A limerick often is dirty
	2003 Aug 15	Quixotic Robot Quests	Teflon starships ply the inky depths
	2003 Aug 15	Begging for Wink	Every letter I have sent you
	2003 Aug 16	Scone Clichés	It's always darkest just before it gets lighter
	2003 Aug 17	Effigy	Right among the maddened crows
	2003 Aug 18	Revenge	To those of you who through the years
	2003 Aug 18	Memories Sleep With You	This is the strangest place
	2003 Aug 18	The Revolution	The desert sands are sleeping tonight
	2003 Aug 18	Blasted Poets	102 poems in just over a week - do none of you sleep? I'm ready to weep
	2003 Aug 19	Today We Are In The Mists	It started out as molecules, swimming in the primal soup
	2003 Aug 19	Revelations Undergone	Shaman footfall
	2003 Aug 20	Bedevil The Faithful	What's that in your pants? Is it something to eat?
	2003 Aug 20	Why Are Doughtnuts Delicious?	From my window, I can see
	2003 Aug 21	Spies Seeking Heat in Arabia	Close to the railway, hidden by bushes
	2003 Aug 21	Fruit Is Like Life	My life is like a grapefruit
	2003 Aug 21	Overcome Heart	My life is like a mouse-trap
	2003 Aug 22	Ungentle Urgings	The rarely recognised conversation
	2003 Aug 22	What is Rope?	When you look around and realise that naught is what it seems
	2003 Aug 24	Glibness for Fakenham	Bills are overdue, your car has broken down
	2003 Aug 25	Beep List	List of Chores
	2003 Aug 25	The Great Fuss	I was fishing one day on the pier
	2003 Aug 25	Pure Floundering	How little do we know ourselves
	2003 Aug 26	Negligent Daleks Give Us A Passable Flamenco	I'd offer you a crumpet,
	2003 Aug 26	The Embroidered Gorgonzola	Teapots singing in the rain
	2003 Aug 26	The Thong Is What Poses	Underneath a mountain, in a dark secluded cave
	2003 Aug 26	Door To Indisposable Sleep	The haiku returns
	2003 Aug 26	The Page is a Cube	Like a russian doll, or perhaps an onion
	2003 Aug 27	Pole Bank Frippery	The long haul to Christmas has started today
	2003 Aug 27	Must Pups Melt Their Carpet?	The pups are gamboling again
	2003 Aug 28	I Am Not The Obsessive Weirdo You Are	I like to spoonbill
	2003 Aug 29	When a Door is Drunk	A healthy meal of beans is the way to start
	2003 Aug 31	Wellington Shining Through	Telescoping microscopes and shoehorning hornpipes
	2003 Sep 2	Pie Trappings	Nymphs and satyrs, centaurs and dryads
	2003 Sep 3	Roomy Life	He spent his life in deep despair and gloom
	2003 Sep 3	Spooning the Kielbasa Worse Than Me	Why must you eat the kielbasa?
	2003 Sep 4	Sonia Wasn't Lost	Sonia is my name, flirting is my game
	2003 Sep 4	A Journey	A big bloke called Gojko the Serb
	2003 Sep 5	The Bob Job Murders	I once had an uncle named Bob
	2003 Sep 6	They Came Third	Dyspeptic Malthusians are roaming about
	2003 Sep 9	Butter Belly Fanclub	Neglecting the home repairs I couldn't do last winter
	2003 Sep 10	Curse Me, Fungus!	The Eskimo, my paramour
	2003 Sep 11	Spotted Crunch	I suggested a title word and the word was this
	2003 Sep 14	Ghosts for My Poster	Dorian hung on my parlour wall
	2003 Sep 17	Time or Porcelain	I frequently sit on the dunny
	2003 Sep 18	About A Hedgehog	The problem with speaking in verse
	2003 Sep 18	Semi Frenzy	The smell of camphor; dust motes in the sun;
	2003 Sep 19	I Fear Bonnie Lies Under the Ocean Freeway	I've oft wondered what Karin looks like
	2003 Sep 19	Weary With Strangely Sprung Happiness	We tried our darnedests to succeed
	2003 Sep 20	The Circling Saucers Of Sirius	My little pal never leaves me
	2003 Sep 20	Pirate Rhymes	There once was a pirate, Blackbeard
	2003 Sep 21	Beaming Constipation	You can choose to conform, you can choose to rebel
	2003 Sep 22	Infatuation: The Amusing Conundrum	What do you want to do with this?
	2003 Sep 22	Quiche Swim	If every boy and every girl
	2003 Sep 23	That Superficial Sniper	He snaps his fingers with such authority
	2003 Sep 23	Making the Tide Wet	I once had to wrestle a bear
	2003 Sep 24	Grandma Ain't Old Enough For Birthdays Any More	Grandma still sports a teased bouffant
	2003 Sep 24	Practise The Birdy	At the crack of day when the baby birds do sing
	2003 Sep 24	Night Before Time Immoderate	in the darkness of the night
	2003 Sep 25	Mother-in-law with Oregano	My mother-in-law, my mother-in law
	2003 Sep 26	Mail-Room Mystery	A weakness for detail
	2003 Sep 26	Ghazal to Asylum	I fear that one day they will carry me off
	2003 Sep 26	Feathery Fiends	What is the matter, my fine-feathered friend?
	2003 Sep 27	Start The Timeclock Earlier	Friday evening's nearly here
	2003 Sep 29	The Progenitors Served Them	When our pets outlive their use
	2003 Oct 1	An Elliptical Doppelganger	Me and my loneliness; we often talk
	2003 Oct 1	The Pretentious Structures For Tasting My Oeuvre	At Halifax, the Muses gather round
	2003 Oct 2	Large Enough To Store Time	What better place than here?
	2003 Oct 4	Our First Love We Denied	We fell into the ocean
	2003 Oct 6	Nailing Lips To My Umbrella	The lipstick factory: kick down the door
	2003 Oct 9	Honestly, If Anyone Dares Mention Earwax Again...	Among the elbows, as a rogue
	2003 Oct 15	Yesteryear Forgotten	Barmy rain lady, why stand in the rain?
	2003 Oct 15	Unsightly Cheesology	I am filled with remorse, and the reasons are three:
	2003 Oct 16	Darling Little Orphans	When Uncle Roland came to stay
	2003 Oct 17	Incompetence, Incompetence	Whilst painting the ceiling, the artist remarked:
	2003 Oct 19	Smiles Bestow Blessings	Like a snake, your smile stretches
	2003 Oct 19	Death is What the Cliché Will	Violets are blue
	2003 Oct 21	Enough Of Death	Sharp as a razor my misericordia
	2003 Oct 23	Tsarist Biscuits, Long Ago	Borneo in a biscuit-tin
	2003 Oct 23	Don't Align Me!	Before enraptured earthworms find you
	2003 Oct 24	Worm Turning Circle	Nobody loses all the time
	2003 Oct 25	Theatre of Heads	The film was droll, though there were dull stretches
	2003 Oct 27	Always Vainglorious Hootenannies	I bought a little bandersnatch
	2003 Oct 30	Pointy Sticks With Hats	Shall I compare thee to an Autumn's day?
	2003 Oct 31	Exchange: Offer Me Something	I'll make you an offer you can't refuse
	2003 Nov 3	Disaster Contest	Archaic persons, flummoxed
	2003 Nov 5	Pray For Dinner	Another web, another fly, another day has wrapped - yet I
	2003 Nov 7	Weird Garden	Misanthropic canteloupes are plotting in the dark
	2003 Nov 7	The Frenchified Arrogant	When pigs grow wings and cows speak French
	2003 Nov 7	Fishy Outlaw Escapes	A handsome young mackeral, named Frank,
	2003 Nov 10	Cult Irregularities	The Underbelly Cult
	2003 Nov 11	Several Sporting Opportunities For Norwich	What makes a lively lunchtime
	2003 Nov 12	Dreaming Of Bagels And Java	When you met me in the restaurant
	2003 Nov 13	Olympian Breakfasting	Venus came to Athens, thence from there to Rome,
	2003 Nov 13	Like Butterflies Don't	So many little fluffy things
	2003 Nov 15	Ruined Dreamscapes	I had an eerie dream last week
	2003 Nov 15	Pets Are Not What They Seem	If every dog and every cat
	2003 Nov 16	Visitors Not Derailed	If it seems too difficult
	2003 Nov 17	Hazardous Waist	Forty-seven atheists have gathered round my grave
	2003 Nov 18	Happiness, The Noose Of Love	Poetry I never knew found love on your demise
	2003 Nov 18	The Most Rewarding Kind Of Exercise	Put it off until tomorrow
	2003 Nov 20	I Am Transformed	I came upon a startling sight
	2003 Nov 20	So Let's Not Eat	The fridge is lurking in a corner - tempting me to sin
	2003 Nov 21	Avoidance Of Outrageous Aphorisms	There was an old man, Mr. Tucker
	2003 Nov 23	The Allure Is Fortunately Passing	When I was only seventeen, I fell in love with a Gypsy queen
	2003 Nov 23	Disembodied Stuff	Dispense with this vulgarity!
	2003 Nov 24	Our Knoll Stroll	Where was JFK, the evening I was shot?
	2003 Nov 25	Growing Like Bacteria	Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
	2003 Nov 27	Nothing Percolates Like Treacle	Have you ever thought of peppering your toes?
	2003 Nov 28	Unless You're The Household Pet	Abrasively, your parrot squawks
	2003 Nov 29	Voluptuary Meter	Dusty streets and peeling paint
	2003 Nov 29	The Proper Toes	A man with a prong on his nose
	2003 Dec 1	Poetry Means Never Having To Wink	Puerile and dull is the Limerick form
	2003 Dec 3	Popcorn Of The French	When tapdancing down the Champs Elysees
	2003 Dec 5	Bondage Followed Swiftly By Kickings	One misty, moisty morning, when cloudy was the weather
	2003 Dec 8	Extraterrestial Wingnuts	Hooper wouldn't say his name
	2003 Dec 9	Etiquette Toward Farm Animals	When addressing a horse, remember the rule:
	2003 Dec 11	Biblical Soundbites	The Tower of Babel, good sir
	2003 Dec 12	Smells Like Parfum	Céline, we'll make a fortune if you'll sweat into this vat
	2003 Dec 14	Sorry Excuses	Cold, you say?
	2003 Dec 17	Nesting Penguins Throughout Asia Minor	I can't believe I left the grass in my pocket
	2003 Dec 19	Greatly Exaggerated Half-truths	Tim sits alone at his desk in the dark
	2003 Dec 29	Pay Cash For Everything Except Unguents	Late Christmas Eve the lot was dark, and so I filched a tree
	2004 Jan 6	Clichés Usually Reserved For Sensitive Souls	The winter sun broke through the trees, to shine upon the meadow
	2004 Jan 9	Otherworldly Stuff By Bob	Quentin Tarantino
	2004 Jan 10	Allowing Rembrandt His Fish Supper	Between the pilot and the prow
	2004 Jan 12	Talisman Testicle	You can't take it with you - or so I've been told
	2004 Jan 12	Quietude Is Surrender	All is quiet; my morning cup of tea is steaming in my hands
	2004 Jan 14	Tugged Up	All is quiet; my morning cup of tea is steaming in my hands
	2004 Jan 14	Prefaces Are Lovely	Let us be pretentious, erudite, utilizing abstruse references, esoterica
	2004 Jan 16	Drastic Therapy For Two	There hast never been a thing more shiny
	2004 Jan 17	Weekend Sorrows Melt In Ale	Happy birthday, Kimberley, let's head off to the bar
	2004 Jan 21	The Dimmer-Switch Disease	Jeeze, I can't find my knees
	2004 Jan 22	Porcine Tales By Granddaddy	I've got a brand new bathroom
	2004 Jan 24	Beaten Fluffy	I took my bitch to get her shaved on Park Lane yesterday
	2004 Jan 25	Cheese Pistons Of All Ages	What is this evil in our midst?
	2004 Jan 26	Looking Good Backwards	Where are the songs of yesteryear?
	2004 Jan 28	Parsec Progression Beyond	What are the odds
	2004 Jan 29	Semicolon Failings	The scarlet letter, none too soon
	2004 Feb 4	Destiny For My King Of Hastings	One day, while I was walking
	2004 Feb 5	Farewell, Mutiny	Cease to sway
	2004 Feb 17	Habits Of Old Liberals Foregone	"devolve prolific coconut" advised the sophic spam
	2004 Feb 22	Clandestine Openings Like That	Meet me in the arboretum
	2004 Feb 24	Who Drank My Sorbet?	Blend one part soot and two parts salt
	2004 Feb 27	Messages For Sandwichmen	We scaled it down
	2004 Mar 1	My Aunt's Astonished Parakeet	Repetition twenty-fold is what I really crave
	2004 Mar 3	Diffused By Brilliant Clouds	I wandered lonely as a nerd
	2004 Mar 9	Nothing But Extra Famine	Whilst walking on the darkling path
	2004 Mar 12	Frauds? Yes	Let us now praise famous men
	2004 Mar 16	Relying On Our Native Discretion	Uncle Stalin's on the floor
	2004 Mar 19	After Lessons	How to explain this shocking situation
	2004 Mar 23	Vladimir's Looted Me Carrot	Silently clutching his kite,
	2004 Mar 26	Otherworldly Newsagent With Or Without Croutons	A surgeon addicted to soup
	2004 Mar 29	Extraterrestrial, Improperly Aligned	The cookbook used by Dr Who
	2004 May 1	More Coal Please. Vicar	She's known as Nell, down in Camberwell
	2004 May 10	Trios Yet	No I never joined in
	2004 May 13	Lest We Forgive Without Forgetting	For the gloom that follows fire
	2004 May 25	Adjectives On Steroids	So sullen was he, in his melancholy wistfulness,
	2004 May 25	Ellis Inland	Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light
	2004 May 28	Hanging Trout Fancying Grandmothers	I dropped it down the wishing well
	2004 May 29	Banished From Man's Ears	To cudgel, to cajole
	2004 Jun 16	Nothing More Tangible For Hillmen	Reticence, the virtue of the fool
	2004 Jun 21	Seegarten Tour For Wits	If it's standing-room only
	2004 Jun 22	A Very Lodestone	'A Fiery Flying Roll', you claim
	2004 Jun 24	Unworthy Of Scorn	This invention makes me sick!
	2004 Jun 25	Subliminal Telemetry Wasted	A muse might amuse us
	2004 Jun 30	If If Why When How Who	Big Brother watches the housemates perform
	2004 Jul 6	We Never Boycott Oversights	Got a nice new jersey
	2004 Jul 9	Staff Barbecue For Hygienic Elves	Pleonastic bunkers that the empire built
	2004 Jul 14	The Zimmer-frame Society	Emblematic? Regal? Or a waste of space,
	2004 Jul 19	Disco Infernal	Annie Lennox drove my car
	2004 Jul 29	Bless This Horse With Greatness	The Gryphon, on his rival page
	2004 Aug 10	Undercover Pastries Lost In Space	In every other window
	2004 Aug 18	Through Hooded Dreams	Shoot off her skin
	2004 Aug 26	Carry No Weightlifters Aloft	When shopping for a pachyderm
	2004 Aug 27	Poorly Bohemians After Supper	An escapee from sanity: that's me
	2004 Aug 30	Addicts Of Various Dispositions	Wallowing hogs and leaping frogs
	2004 Sep 4	Blossom On Most Wintry Afternoons	How blistering your prose, how Jovian your style
	2004 Sep 13	It Cannot Be The Teapots	She is in love with the beautiful formlessness of the sea (Sylvia Plath)
	2004 Sep 15	Unnecessary Puns As She Grasped Another Cupcake	Her eyes are like a cup of tea
	2004 Sep 21	Nature And Delight Worn Out	We are the Corporation
	2004 Oct 12	Cardigan Wildlife Artists	When chatty foils reappear
	2004 Oct 14	When Nagging Seem Treasonous	"Love me or leave me," my girlfriend remarked
	2004 Nov 4	Zoology Students On Holiday	My cat has six claws on her frontmost two paws
	2004 Nov 17	The Approach Of Suicidal Robots	The telecon went on and on
	2004 Nov 29	Things Are Annoying Everywhere	Just take a breath - we'll sort this out
	2004 Dec 8	Parts That Require Frequent Calibration	A man once played my didgeridoo
	2004 Dec 17	Facile Farewell	Taking umbrage, in the Nile,
	2005 Jan 15	Stealth For Newfound Cheeses	Broad pretensions, on the board-walk,
	2005 Jan 24	Trap For Attractive Babes	Could you possibly close your sweet mouth as you chew?
	2005 Jan 27	Horses Most Definitely	Spanish onions, in the dark,
	2005 Feb 1	Sixty-five Degrees	If you squeegee my windshield, I'll scour your pot
	2005 Mar 18	I Would Rather Not Serve Rice	I might not swallow more than once
	2005 May 3	Blimey, Guv	Dear, pour me out a single cup of tea,
	2005 Jun 29	Always Downfallen	The mood, in Hitler's bunker
	2005 Jul 4	Enough Bagels Disavowed	In spite of all your after-shave
	2005 Jul 12	My Priapic Milestone	Coddled mushrooms, all a-simmer,
	2005 Jul 20	Remedial By Association	Sufferers of synarthrodiae
	2005 Aug 10	Fields Of Everywhere	His secretary's teeth were sown
	2005 Aug 23	Wittgenstein Therapy	Take parnsip from the heap
	2005 Sep 1	Detonating Error	A small explosion
	2005 Sep 4	Leonine Mellinger Pronounces Herself Destitute	This Plasticene®'s Jurassic, don't you know?
	2005 Sep 8	Whistles	Russell Hoban, king of rhyme,
	2005 Sep 21	Caramel Christmas	In this wise, the King of Thebes
	2005 Oct 5	Associations Lend Their Chevrons	Criticism - from the ranks -
	2005 Nov 23	Fester's Last Words	It takes a man with real strength to deplore
	2005 Dec 1	When Everything Presupposes	I am the Centaur and the sword
	2005 Dec 12	Aspire To Life	Big fish, tiny pond
	2006 Jan 11	Enduring Without Succor	If fish could scream
	2006 Jan 26	Off Kilter	All is confirmed
	2006 Feb 14	Tithes Before Flamingos	If heebie has jeebies and hocus has pocus
	2006 Feb 23	We Can All Escape From This Hotel	Clutching and screaming they summoned you hither
	2006 Feb 28	Wise Virgins Stitched In Gorgonzola	Vanishing by windmills,
	2006 Mar 2	Half The Time Left To Us	Have you met my little friend, Bip?
	2006 Mar 14	The Death Wish List	When Doomsday comes, where will you be?
	2006 Mar 30	Bread-van Impasse	Reptilinear
	2006 May 4	Good Bugs	We must perform a Quirkafleeg
	2006 May 12	When London Rose	Could it be summer's here?
	2006 May 15	Yes, Cheese Is Edible	I'm glad to see your back
	2006 May 30	Inbred Heirloom	To generate hysteria, the Queen declared the area
	2006 Jun 7	Lark Ovaries	Have you ever thought of trimming your moustache?
	2006 Jun 9	The Thursday Matinee	No lack of contentious divisions
	2006 Jun 12	No Peppermint Drops	The clouds are filled with bicycles
	2006 Jun 16	Dragon-tail Drunk	Going out again
	2006 Jun 21	Steam Calendar	St. Swithin's Day? Is that in May?
	2006 Jun 29	The Caretaker Who Cried Wolf	When once I bumped a smallish man
	2006 Jul 6	Socialists Challenging A Shutdown	A dinghy's captain, fearing wreck
	2006 Jul 17	Drum Dazed	The hideous spectre of her purse
	2006 Jul 28	Such Gravitas Is Wasted	Again, at the cathedral
	2006 Aug 3	Craig Levy, Moorhen	Now if six turned out to be nine
	2006 Aug 31	Cried The Idyll	Be not so blue, my dainty dove,
	2006 Sep 2	Can Chewing	To sit with you at sunrise
	2006 Sep 20	Demanding Chocolate Money Back	While others stand empty
	2006 Sep 26	The Cauliflower Nuisance	Demanding menace with a payment,
	2007 Jan 16	Fly Nightmares	A carthorse, baked in bread
	2007 Jan 21	Not Nubile, Not Shadows	Curves aplenty, on the bed,
	2007 Feb 26	Interface Not Found - Contact the Librarian	As to orientation I've begun a new élite
	2007 Mar 2	Duplicitous Herrings in Identifiable Watercourses	Catechresis mumbles, in the final act,
	2007 Mar 29	Ancestral Portraits: Girl Askance	Ethel had the sharpest wit,
	2007 Apr 13	Three Blonde Mice	Off to other hemispheres
***	2004 Jul 2	Domestic Meltdown	The problem is easy to see
	2004 Aug 27	We Penguins Have Closed Supper Clubs Forever	I'm an escapee from sanity
	2005 Feb 22	The Alphabet Artfully Reconstructed From Bedsprings	Awake! Before the porridge starts to burn!
	2005 Mar 10	Wherever Tuesday Blues	Little Jack Horner sat in a corner
	2005 Apr 25	While Letting Agencies Do Their Damnedest	We pick on them because we know
	2006 Sep 7	Showmen, Their Regrettable Legend	Tonsils made of plastic
	2007 Jan 15	Recipe For A Very Quiet Airplane	Add a fraction from the jar
	2007 Mar 19	They Taught Pointless Rules	Onto Oban, with a snail,

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An Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse1996–2007

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An Olden Treasury of Collaborative Verse
1996–2007