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These strangest of lines I suppose'll
Make do as a sort of proposal...
(If these words that I've made you
Aren't enough to persuade you,
Then maybe this simple red rose'll)...
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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail (as opposed to Romantic Male?), Feb 12)
(I submitted two, surely the other's better? - see Feb 14)
Who doesn't like a 3-liner? (Quite a few of you don't, apparently.) Well, I'll have you know that many a critic has said of my work "at least it's in English" - and as for the great Stephen Fry, he once said of me "Vincent who?" Let's just say I supply the litter to the litterati [sic - but only at times] - ie: I write rubbish. But rubbish mostly inspired by the HAIKU, the 17th Century Japanese verse form consisting of 3 lines and 17 (5-7-5) syllables. (WARNING: flash photography and limericks)
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