someone's got to do it...

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"You do nothing?" I enquired, quite impressed -
"And for hour after hour!" said my guest,
"It can take 3 or 4,
Perhaps even more,
For it's hard when I'm not at my best"...

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- indeed, over the years, he had sought out some of the world's most interesting locations in which to do - well, nothing, really. And not always on his own. He had truly got it down to a fine art ...

"Did the earth move?"......

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these days, the best part
of the night rarely lasts the
best part of the night...

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- Million Dollar Man? - sadly, it's more a case of Waning Powers than Austin Powers...











('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

it's that old anthropomorphic vanity thing...

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"good point, well made," I
smiled - boy, pencil sharpeners
sure love compliments!...

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(17 Syllables)

no reason...

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"Me? - No, I'm really
not the inquisitive type
at all. Why d'you ask?"...

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('Game, Set & Match': 17 Syllables)

a non-rhyming 'England, centre of the uni' verse...

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Some parts of China used to hate foreigners,
maybe still do -
but what did I care?...
I wasn't a foreigner - I was English.

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Still am, in fact. Still travelling, too.

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(travel light - leave your brain at home)





Vincent Hefter, News at Ten, Yangshuo, China

blank verse...

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reading between the
lines, this has to be one of
my finest couplets...

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(17 Syllables)

it does what it says on the tin...

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opening my tin
of evaporated milk,
I found that it had...

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('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

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"Nothing is more beautiful than a woman in a cheongsam. Except perhaps a woman stepping out of one"...

Vincent Hefter, News at Ten, Cheung Chau Bun Festival (101 things you can do with a bun on one of Hong Kong's outlying islands - happily, "eating one" scraped in at No 93, so I had 2). I think it was that way round.

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