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PLEASURE – PLENARY
The Borough's Committee for Leisure
Proposes a Garden of Pleasure
With cheap plastic greenery.
Let's hope the plenary
Council approves such a measure.
('Leisure' pronounced the British way.)
EMOTIVE – ENCOURAGE
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There was a rogue preacher called Wyatt
Whose sermons aroused much disquiet.
Emotive and loud,
He encouraged his crowd
To dress as crusaders and riot.
POCKET – POKY
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I knew a disgraced City gent
Who lived in a poky old tent.
He'd reach in his pocket
And pull out a docket
To check how much money he'd spent.
DIRECTION – DISAGREE
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A maestro's ill-founded 'correction'
Irked players within the brass section.
They all disagreed
With his notion of speed,
And brazenly mocked his direction.
TENDENCY – TENURE
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Most powerful men have a tendency
To seek to prolong their ascendancy.
Their tenure of might,
Which they see as their right,
Can quickly become a dependency.
LIKELY – LINEN
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In the bad old days, women would stand
And wash their soiled linen by hand.
Now washing machines
Are the most likely means,
And harmful abrasives are banned.
ANNOUNCE – ANOMALY
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The bishop announced: "In my see,
Unorthodox views should be free".
He then preached a homily
With an anomaly:
God was referred to as 'she'.
TALENT – TANGLED
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Carpal Tunnel
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His sermon thus artfully angled
Displayed his beliefs so newfangled.
But to shore up his pronouns
He tried using no nouns
And soon became hopelessly tangled.
HUTCH - HYMN
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Our perception of temporal flow
Is such that time seems to run slow
When we anxiously wait
For events running late,
As tests with a pendulum show. - 1/8/2024, above See "Exhalation," in the book Exhalation by Ted Chiang, a Borzoi book published by Alfred A Knopf, 2019, for a story on precisely this theme
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His sermon thus artfully angled
Displayed his beliefs so newfangled.
But to shore up his pronouns
He tried using no nouns
And soon became hopelessly tangled.
HUTCH - HYMN My nephew is learning the cello, But no-one would call his tone mellow. Though I try to be gallant And say he has talent, His fingers get tangled, poor fellow. HUTCH – HYMN
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