Caroline Knox

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He craved potassium, so he drank V-8.
His Smith-Corona was an Olivetti,
A toboggan with a green and silver keyboard.

Einstein was from Ulm, and Abraham from Ur.
We folded our laundry in the Pyrenees
Mountains. She looked at biota on the seaboard.

They ransacked the sofa for coins inside.
I rinsed my hair; he ate some grits;
you kissed him in the arbor, so he fed her cat

on quindin de yá-yá, a custard dessert.
In shoes that made noise, we sang at the Ritz
the Buxtehude Magnificat.

She will teach crafts at Gondola University
until he gazes at the Italy of memory.
We will indulge ourselves at the Sert

Café, yet he will envy your swine.
You loved my hat, but they emailed his bride
a rain of virtual confetti.

They loved her with all our heart;
he loved them with all my book.
She said her name was Crêche Mangerhay.

Here is something you can substantiate:
these are nonce tercets; every line
rhymes with another somewhere or other.

You carded the wool and he praised the sheep.
The osprey is mousing and frogging in the swamp.
He will not sample the marshmellow peep.