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inspired by my dads tale of how a liquid lunch caused the MOD chief to dose off while siging a contract .

Karen Bookguilder is intended to be a collection of poems 60 poems expressly for the Book Guild by Mike Burr - the themes being dictated by or about its published artisans .

Ministry of defence



hugovincial of the village from whence he does commute
three gardens a proligious beetroot wife will tend
and kilders four - two girl one boy and one not sure
while he entrained or avalanching details
of the forces deep in winter or heat upon Afghanistan
the walletner he shogently all his tips and tricks
for he likes defenses gilded purse in which he dips
back to our hero though, avid ties and biriculous
a husome red proboscis, lumped pore
exuding alcohol and company lunch
now largely fattened, a copuliser alas no more
he will irritable bore or drowning droning snore
waiting for the gavvy clock to chimberr
half past five brings back to live
and for the southern station heads his corpus all
its day is done as he stokes the old coal engines
his train for heart attacks and strokes
a waddling suit his darling the same middle shabby bloketh greet
all kilders play computer games or shriek
and contribute the world asks she good matron
oh hard day - but we will change the blozing earth
says he


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