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Unread 09-28-2018, 08:03 PM
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Unread 09-29-2018, 10:00 AM
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Is this a limerick?
I found it over in the Nemerov can.

Odds are there is another you; like you
in every way except that he does scotch
and you the gin, and unlike you he flew
the coup and is content to sit watch
just like before (you know the time) her scream
(such days, back then) beneath the music's din.
You held her down (to cheer you on he left his seat)
reflect on what might be if chance had been
dealt differenty. You could do time as twins.
Now live, you demonstrate that same man kind
in ways we understand. Defend your sins
to your familiars, "Lies!". They’ll talk and find
– as a mirror slowly sings before their eyes –
a shared affection for possession, “Mine".
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Limericks? For these political times? Not sure they do the job.
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Unread 09-29-2018, 05:42 PM
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Is this a limerick?
I found it over in the Nemerov can.

Odds are there is another you; like you
in every way except that he does scotch
and you the gin, and unlike you he flew
the coup and is content to sit watch
just like before (you know the time) her scream
(such days, back then) beneath the music's din.
You held her down (to cheer you on he left his seat)
reflect on what might be if chance had been
dealt differenty. You could do time as twins.
Now live, you demonstrate that same man kind
in ways we understand. Defend your sins
to your familiars, "Lies!". They’ll talk and find
– as a mirror slowly sings before their eyes –
a shared affection for possession, “Mine".
I might have glossed some of the lines with the new information from the author. It isn't a translation. It is a version.
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Unread 09-30-2018, 11:27 AM
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I've had several PMs, and the Mods have received a 'Reported Post', from members who are not happy with the way this thread is progressing, so I have to say something.

Can we keep to the original discussion please, and leave Robert Crawford (who is not a Spherean, btw) out of it? If anyone wants to post their own limericks in reaction to the news I will move the thread to Drills and Amusements (a reminder that members' own work is not permitted on a GT thread).

Thank you.

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Unread 09-30-2018, 12:29 PM
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That's fine! Now that it is known it cannot be un-known.
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Unread 09-30-2018, 02:31 PM
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Not happy with the thread progression? Poor dears. I came in late and got confused. I thought the thread had become about the progression of misogyny allied with oligarchy. But if the very threads progression is what is in danger, why that there is much more serious. Please, go back to the original silence that was the thread before it got carried away. Silence is just(er) golden.
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To be fair, the substantial TradCath presence in form poetry is making similar noises, for similar reasons.
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To Owrn and everyone else: just a reminder that posting ad hominen attacks at Eratosphere is prohibited per Eratosphere's guidelines. Please, keep that in mind since repeat offenders will be dealt with per the applicable sanctions!

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