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Unread 04-21-2011, 10:09 PM
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Bill Greenwell was our only representative this week, but, as ever, a worthy one. This week calls for verse. Goody!

No. 2696: The morning after
You are invited to submit a dialogue in verse between two body parts composed on the occasion of a hangover (16 lines maximum). Please email entries, where possible, to lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 11 May.
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Okay, but shouldn't she have put a comma after the word "parts"?

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Yes I think she should. Standards are slipping everywhere.
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Quite late, the morning-after, Common Sense
regains the floor and moves a resolution:
"Resolved, this Body henceforth drinks no more!"
The Hand that poured, now shakily relents;
the chastened Wits agree in mute confusion;
the turncoat Tongue and reddened Eyes implore
concurrence. As the motion carries, cheers
and ringing sounds continue in the Ears.

Amid the din, none note a braying snore,
nor see, collapsed in perfect dissolution,
the instigator of their late offense,
who led the party-of-the-night-before.
He sleeps this session through without intrusion;
aware these worthies often jump the fence,
his slumber is untroubled. As Desire,
he'll speak tonight, though—and he'll be on fire.

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Oooh - naughty. But nice.
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I love it, Frank!
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