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I don\u2019t know what I metaphor. <\/span><\/p>\n I tried ten puns to make her laugh. <\/span><\/p>\n No pun in ten did.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m a poet!\u00a0<\/em><\/span>I ejaculated prematurely –<\/span><\/p>\n She just left me \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0dangling <\/span><\/p>\n a participle, part-disciple, part-adieu, pas de deux, <\/span><\/p>\n cut me to the Quink with her secateurs<\/span><\/p>\n (non sequitur)<\/span><\/p>\n my heart cut up as a found poem<\/span><\/p>\n split \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0as an infinitive<\/p>\n I am in the present \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0tense<\/span><\/p>\n She, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0the past, \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0perfect.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a9 rob walker \u00a02005<\/span><\/p>\n Published in BEST AUSTRALIAN POEMS 2005 <\/span><\/p>\n (Ed. Les Murray, Black Inc.)<\/span><\/p>\n and Original Clich\u00e9s, Ginninderra Press, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t know what I metaphor. I tried ten puns to make her laugh. No pun in ten did. I\u2019m a poet!\u00a0I ejaculated prematurely – She just left me \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0dangling a participle, part-disciple, … Continue reading