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as of today, the US has a new poet laureate, Billy Collins; here is something from his latest book: Sonnet All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now, and after this one just a dozen to launch a little ship on love's storm-tossed seas, then only ten more left like rows of beans. How easily it goes unless you get Elizabethan and insist the iambic bongos must be played and rhymes positioned at the ends of lines, one for every station of the cross. But hang on here while we make the turn into the final six where all will be resolved, where longing and heartache will find an end, where Laura will tell Petrarch to put down his pen, take off those crazy medieval tights, blow out the lights, and come at last to bed. -- Billy Collins http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=294
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It's a form with rules. You ain't *sposed to mess with it.  harrumph®
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we all march to different bongos, I guess.
(meanwhile, try some of his other efforts at the link -- I particularly like "I go back to the house for a book", a variation on our variations on time theme.)
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...a variation on our variations on time theme...tsuwm, what an utterly kewl (hi, Max) idea!
Quite literally "getting ahead of himself". And, and, I like your 'variations on a theme' theme, thoo-I-mean-too.
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The important question is:
Do it sing?
I respectfully submit the answer is, "No."
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of the story of Annie, Bessie, and Laurie, all of whom were lions in the Boston Zoo. Bored with life, they set out on a walk through Boston Common, where one of them, feeling a might peckish, gobbled up a little old white-haired guy who was sitting on a park bench writing poetry.
Later, they returned to their cage, where they heard on the radio that Robert Frost had disappeared in Bost Common. Annie turned to Bessie and said, "Must've been the poet Laurie ate."
TEd
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...the poet Laurie ate.Groan-nn...Ted, I'm so glad you're here, you not-a-legume! 
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Abiding rules or not, it's a wiser man who listens when ordered from his tights, than he who tarries at his desk to capture ecstacy while s/he falls angrilly to sleep in bed, who called him there.
To say, I think it's charming.
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Once again, had you but posted it's a wiser man who listens when ... in Maximising Value I could have added it to the collexion (Brit spelling to match Maximising...).
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hey, hew yew akewzing ov maching spellingz? But at least the language sings this side of the pond! 
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