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Classic poem of the day

The Gopher remarked to the Prairie Dog,
“Though widely reputed a scary dog,
You live in a room with a Rattlesnake,
A Burrowing Owl and a Cattle Snake.
Now, Burrowing Owls are lugubrious,
And Snakes I should term insalubrious;
I wonder, by all that's get-at-able,
If truly you find them compatible.”
“Not wholly,” responded the Prairie Dog—
First looking behind him, the wary dog!
“My quarters are scarcely commodious,
The squatters y......

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Member poem of the day

In the frosted dark of Market Square,
hours before Supermac’s opens,
the camel-backed Magi spark to life.

Stealthy council workers drape streets
with pearls of light, flashing Santas, sleighs;
star of Bethlehem crowning a twelve foot tree.

Beneath the Chemist’s neon crucifix
a hooded commuter sways,
cradling a polystyrene cup.

Gazing at the electronic display,
he offers up a silent prayer
that ‘Delayed&...

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