NEW BLOG FORMATTING TEST (excuse the noise, attempting to verify what the software is NOW doing with line spacing). [A SONNET FRAGMENT INSIDIOUSLY EQUIPPED WITH BOTH KIPLING AND SPACE LEFT FOR THAT UNPRINTABLE WORD FROM "ATONEMENT"] One version goes that Kipling's first words sold were shaped into a sonnet called "Two Lives." Some platitudinous verse, I'd guess, unfold. No ____ sniffs of aristocratic wives. But still ta-DUM ta-DUM ta-DUM ta-DUM === One version goes that Kipling's first words sold were shaped into a sonnet called "Two Lives." Some platitudinous verse, I'd guess, unfold. No ____ sniffs of aristocratic wives.   But still ta-DUM ta-DUM ta-DUM ta-DUM === | One version goes that Kipling's first words sold | | were shaped into a sonnet called "Two Lives." | | Some platitudinous verse, I'd guess, unfold. | | No ____ sniffs of aristocratic wives. | | | But still ta-DUM ta-DUM ta-DUM ta-DUM guarding.co.uk / poster poems 4 artistofideas ["BOKE" username was disallowed by guardian site] Comment No. 1066668 April 24 3:12 [The license of sonnet week expires soon ... hmmm... pomo? ok]   FRAGMENTARY SONNET [SITCOM FRAGMENT: UNSPECIFIED COUNTRY - MORNING] I SPEAK IAMBIC while I floss and spit. Demosthenes is smiling in his grave. The poet on the toilet has a fit: "Must even farts have accents now? Behave." [HISTORICAL FRAGMENT WITH RHETORICAL MOTIVE, DUH:)] When princess E. (yes, Tudor) was a child, when EDUCATION was the yard of males; She exercised in verse, from French beguiled hymns into sonnets. When queen, sharp as nails. [PERORATION? VERSION A / CHOOSE A OR B] Once Kipling held more eyes than "Potter" now. Seems Shakespeare still commands we bow today. And where'd I be if VERSE did not allow my words to flow? It seems no other way. [PERORATION? VERSION B] Across town, William wrestled with constraints. And Shakespeare still commands we bow today when "SONNET" labels seem unfruitful feints within the bell-less ring where modern's play [CODA!] A pomo-rhetor's art's not in the line, but in what shape the FRAGMENTS may define.

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