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    Double Baloney: ''5-7-5-Ers'' & ''Limericks''
    Double Baloney: ''5-7-5-Ers'' & ''Limericks''
    Double Baloney: ''5-7-5-Ers'' & ''Limericks''
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    Double Baloney: ''5-7-5-Ers'' & ''Limericks''

    By Bruce Howard Hamilton

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    ~Double Baloney~ is a compilation of 130 pages of mock-haiku and pseudolimericks, rather baroquely written so that each item is one relatively sweeping 'sentence.' On every page is one mock-haiku plus one psuedolimerick, and the individual items on each page have quite identical titles. A very strong attempt has been made to push the language of the individual pieces toward much grammatical correctness, so that the final verbal effects might seem lapidary if not absolutely epigrammatic. Much entertainment supposedly may be had in terms of noticing how the English language is played with.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateMar 27, 2009
    ISBN9781462810079
    Double Baloney: ''5-7-5-Ers'' & ''Limericks''
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    Bruce Howard Hamilton

    Bruce Hamilton, a rather solitary Californian, attended Yale College for two years. He assiduously has devoted most of his literary practicing to such basic pieces as limericks and sonnets. His recent "literary hero" was and still is Jorge Luis Borges, toward whose pessimisms about language and literature he remains sympathetic.

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      Double Baloney - Bruce Howard Hamilton

      Copyright © 2009 by Bruce Howard Hamilton.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

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      Contents

      OLD WATCHES

      A CACTUS

      BRIGHT HOLIDAYS

      A STAR

      THE MANGER

      SOME BOXINGS

      THE CHILL

      A PINEAPPLE

      A HEEL

      SOME WASHING MACHINES

      ESTABLISHMENTS

      ADVERTISEMENTS

      WARM SUNSHINE

      PEDESTRIANS

      A STOP SIGN

      A CIRCLE

      GOOD FOOD

      OLD CLOTHING

      SOME LEMONS

      PURE VIOLENCE

      OUR FREEDOM

      OUR QUESTIONS

      SOME TOOTHBRUSH

      WHEN GARLIC

      SOME SPIDERS

      THE HAIRCUTS

      MY SNOTTINESS

      THE CHILL

      CRITERIA

      AFFECTION

      THE WOUNDS

      THE STORM

      MY HAIRCUTS

      YOUR USUAL

      THE TASTE

      PSYCHIATRISTS

      THE URGENCY

      LIME SHERBET

      MY BUMBERSHOOT

      ALARMISTS

      SOME HAILSTONES

      PLAIN BUTTER

      SENILITY

      THE CLASSICS

      THE PAINTING

      SOME RANCH HANDS

      MY COMFORTER

      OUR SHOPPING

      TRIMMED HEDGES

      SOME SALT

      OUR HEARTSTRINGS

      BAD TASTE

      SOME BOOKSHELVES

      MALFUNCTION

      REFLECTING

      THICK MIST

      ON SALE

      A TREE

      MY CANE

      DEFINING

      LOUD ECHOES

      ABSTRACTNESS

      THE RUG

      ONE THING

      THE WEEDS

      TOMORROW

      MY BUTTONS

      MUCH RUSTING

      ECCENTRICS

      THE OCEAN

      A BICYCLE

      MERE BAGS

      OUR BEDTIMES

      DESPAIR

      IN STYLE

      BRIGHT GREEN

      STIFF BREEZES

      ACCOUNTING

      AN ORCHID

      BLUE SKIES

      ARITHMETIC

      BRIGHT POPPIES

      THE EGGS

      IN SPRING

      A CHAIR

      CONVENIENCE

      HUMILITY

      A DAISY

      OUR POLICIES

      I YAMMER

      THE MARKETS

      RECEIPTS

      THE TRITENESS

      OUR DOCTORS

      ABILITIES

      LIFE’S LAMENESS

      A DAIRY

      A SPECTACLE

      THE TRICKS

      MY WRONGNESS

      THOSE OLIVES

      CONSUMING

      REFRIGERATE

      DIVORCE

      THAT BRIDGE

      SWEET JUICES

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