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Firewater65 has written a

poem in the spirit of Trefology.

And I, for one, am here to say,

“It’s about time somebody did.”

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But not here.

 The Kingston Trio

never sang the verse

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“Where have all

the corn chips gone”

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because they knew

damn well where

they had gone.

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I bet few senators

were happy with

Caligula appointing a

horse as consul.

But, then — after a time,

I can easily see

them all

standing around

discussing hay.

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In my experience,

there are two kinds of

peanut brittle you

can buy at the store

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One comes in a can with

peanut brittle inside.

The other contains snakes.

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And you never know

which you’ll get.

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Once I got some peanut brittle

as a gift,

and thinking myself clever,

I gave it to my friend to open first.

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“Thank you,” she said.

Then she opened it,

and ate a piece.

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So I was about to take

a piece, too,

when snakes sprang

out of her mouth.

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Point of

clarification

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The Frankincense

Monster

was not named

Frankincense.

That was just

what he

smelled like.

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Dad threatened

to pull over the

car if we didn’t

stop misbehaving.

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So we stopped misbehaving.

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And Dad, true to

his word, didn’t

pull over the car.

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Not even when we

passed our house.

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He just kept

driving and driving.

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“Always be true to your nature,”

said Dad, merging

onto the interstate.

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If I jumped out of

a plane and my

parachute failed

to deploy, the

first thing I’d

do is look

for a haystack.

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If no haystack

is forthcoming,

then I would look

for a pile of

old mattresses.

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If no pile of

old mattresses

is forthcoming,

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then I would

change tactics and

start looking

for somebody who

owes me money.

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If no one who

owes me money

is forthcoming,

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I suppose I

would just start

flapping my arms

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The

Lady of the Lake

used to live

behind my house.

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Every now and again,

she’d emerge from

the water and give me

something.

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Like, Excalibur’s

old cracked boat oar.

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Excalibur’s

single flip-flop.

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Excalibur’s

Coke bottle

with mud in it. 

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Excalibur’s

wallet & I.D.

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Then one day she

gave me Excalibur’s

left femur bone

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and that’s when

we had to involve

the authorities

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Alexamenos.

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Alexamenos claps

between movements.

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Alexamenos thanks

people who didn’t

help him.

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Alexamenos tries to

whistle but fails.

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Alexamenos holds

the door for

someone still in

the parking lot.

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Alexamenos asks the

time when standing

near a sundial.

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Alexamenos lives a

hop, skip, and a jump from a

puddle, ditch, and a cliff.

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Alexamenos rides a

bicycle built for Lou.

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Alexamenos requests

Dvorak on the

classical station and

then falls asleep

before it plays.

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Alexamenos believes the

automatic bowling pin

resetter mocks him.

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Alexamenos stays till the

very end.

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Alexamenos.

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