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(for tim atkins)

If I say a little about the timber
sorry I am become all flora interruptus.
I am tiny & exotic.
I am incapable.
I got the painless mumps
but I got you babe where we are
up in this famous ancient tree.
On my early map look over
there is our anti-highwayman trench.
Let’s gamekeep our own wood.
You be holly I’m a nut.
Later in the common market he died
not being shy storming
her world where he & forgot beautiful old rhyme.