(17/04/51 / Edinburgh)

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A Certainty

Blond bicycles writhe in the swimming pools
of dark professors.
'What rubbish! ' you say, but I've seen it myself:
Blond bicycles writhe in the swimming pools
of dark professors.

Submitted: Sunday, August 21, 2005
Edited: Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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  • Ruth Walters (10/27/2009 3:04:00 PM)

    naughty, naughty......


    ; -)

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  • Sarwar Chowdhury (8/25/2008 10:12:00 AM)

    I liked it the way you expressed........10

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  • The Former Badjist (4/1/2008 7:45:00 PM)

    Well, I keep thinking about those bicycles

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  • Lime and Tequila with a Splash of Pineapple (1/29/2008 11:06:00 PM)

    I wonder if they were ten-speed bicycles.

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  • Ivor Hogg (11/18/2007 1:14:00 PM)

    no accounting for a poets visions

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