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Random Poem:

original draft CLAQUE (obsolete)
netskyIam

Like bumps on rails of railroad tracks;
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as if on cue from conductor Jack
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The audience-shills slapped their palms.
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clap clap clap clap clap clap clap
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"Oh, you peanut gallery!
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You rabbling crows
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your free ride paid! So clap!
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Don't only honk your noses!"
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Demanded he before show time;
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Johnathan Wimpole Walrus Back,
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conductor of the Knightsbridge Line
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A cliquish-claque of feigns-non-fairs
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hollowly rides his clap-trap aires
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Two shillings to stay and all that one way
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Hear bad music? Applaud "His Backness" anyway
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clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! clap! clap!
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Turning he bows toward his claque-rail-lions;
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those callows dumping faked huzzahs
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Giving real payers shrinking pause
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CLAQUEDY CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
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"Really, was it so much all that?"
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This conductor now turns and bows
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and runs toward curtains to avoid your roused
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tempers after this dupey tour
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upon a de-railed vaudeville railing
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from the Knightsbridge Lie... urr ...
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_Knightsbridge Limelight Line_
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