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Subject: Re: Ponder This / George J. Dance
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:03:30 +0000
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George J. Dance wrote:

> Ponder This
>
>
> Alas! Alack! Oh, woe is me!
> I am in Mohit Misery.
>
> I spent good money on a book
> of poems without a preview look
>
> then found, when I had ope'd it up
> row after row of silly coup-
>
> lets, half of which don't scan
> (though the poet gets a rhyme in whenever he can)
>
> while the other half make zero sense;
> a carpark often has a fence.
>
> In life there's many a tragedy,
> but none like Mohit Misery.
>
> I'll even pray to heaven, please
> relieve us from Mo Miseries.
>
> - George J. Dance
> from Ponder This, 2015

"In the style of George Dance"

😏