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A guide to long narrative poems in modern English alliterative verse .

"... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war."

—Gertrude Stein via @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social

Signs the Frog has been Boiled.

'"path of attainment, path of remorse"

   whist stakes tilt
the strict fiction
   toaster scrape
telling morning
   gate left loose
red sky scowling
   sung the trout
or the troutlet
   whist stakes tilt

Vania Has Brided a Serpent by the Beard and Rides Through Town.