Brainless head.
Five-member mob.
Core sample for a lead mine.
The last word’s epitaph.
Stump.
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Boy that’s good! A poem like a fist, about a fist. And now it’s stuck like a burr in my mind. Dave, you are one clever, clever man! Well done my friend.
I was going to comment on the fist-like structure of the poem, but I see I have been beaten to it already. Indeed, well done.
Thanks, Clive and Maria! Praise from you two makes me think I might’ve gotten it right, though for the longest time yesterday I was convinced that these were only the bare bones of a poem.
No, hardly bare bones. This was fully fleshed out, albeit in short-hand.
Great piece of writing, Dave.
“Short-hand”! Thanks for the chuckle.