Pirate Girl

'I am me and he is he, '
said the shadow to the lake,
'I can sift through countless trees
while he must stand or break.'
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Here I be an impish sprite
that speaks with impish speech
biting hard a lion's tail
I clamp fast with my teeth;
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Captain Cur suggested that I should greet
the notorious Webmistress of the Deep
Underground Poetry’s subconscious link
to vocabularies curt inner speech
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Special meanings are attached
to each and every name
but to me, Mischana, they have begun
to sound all the same.
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I hope I do not fall guilty to the simple crime
of rote and faulty endings that close in rhyme.
Phonetic phrases deadened by sweet abuse.
Rhymes dime worn thin by years of overuse.
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