Alessandra Liverani Poems

Today Jeny is having a bouncy birthday blast
At the table will be included a distinctly canine cast
Denver, a delightful, dapper dynamo of origin half chihuahua
And Alfie, his maltese mate who helps him create brouhaha
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Am I a cockapoo or one of those spoodles
Either way, I've got oodles and oodles
Of energy, I bounce off the walls
Literally, I don't care if I fall
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Is blind fear blind?
Yes, it is
Is blind fear fear?
Yes, it is
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Hello Bob, it's Archie, me telly's on the blink
Without me telly on it's even hard for me to think
I watch it of an evening snuggled up beneath me doona
Can you come round. Not later, I'd rather it were sooner
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Hold that thought, no not that one
That one will get you undone
The one before which flitted past so fleeting
That's the one to which you should be heeding
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It's all in your mind, well of course it must be
It's not in your elbows, little toe or left knee
It's not in the hair that sprouts from the mole on your nose
And it's not in the place that smells like a rose
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Sally bought a toothbrush holder made from gleaming brass
Solid, smooth and golden, it was really class
But she was loathe to spend long dreary hours
Buffing and shining it, after hefty scours
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Do you want to know the items that sit on my desk
You do? Well I'll list them and then give you a test
A pair of sunglasses, scissors, a cup and a phone
Some papers scattered over and a pen resting alone
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Are brainwashers themselves brainwashed?
Have their brains also been squashed?
Have they been indoctrinated
To spew out brainwashing most hated?
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I wish I could, but I can't
I wish I would, but I won't
I can't do it, I don't believe
That is something I could never achieve
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