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Pam Ayres
Posted: 12 October 2018
Word Count: 39
Summary: An envious rictameter
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Pam Ayres,
although she is
a popular poet,
can’t write stuff as funny as mine,
but nevertheless gets paid a fortune
while I can’t find a publisher.
And that is why you see
I wish I was
Pam Ayres.
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 michwo at 12:41 on 12 October 2018
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Mickey,
Your scarecrow poems were brilliant by the way! If I hadn't forgotten how to laugh at life, I'd have laughed out loud!
My laughter is more of a rictus really. You've taken me back to black and white TV with this one, Hughie Green, Opportunity Knocks and Pam Ayres's first appearance as a youthful Oxonian (I think that word means someone who hails from Oxford or Oxfordshire, which I think she does.) She was a breath of fresh air then I have to say.
But so are you.
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 Mickey at 13:22 on 13 October 2018
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Hi Michael
Thank you for your kind comments. I hope I may have reminded you how to laugh again 
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 V`yonne at 09:49 on 14 October 2018
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 name in lights and bank balance sky-rocketting  Aye, we'd all love that. And do you like going out late at night, traipsing all over the country? And do you like reading your stuff aloud?
I don't mind reading...but I'm a lunchtime kinda poet -- well mid-afternoon -- okay LAZY! 
I tghink you should change the title to
An envious rictameter
because it's funny.
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 Bazz at 17:47 on 14 October 2018
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Hi MIckey, I'd never heard of a rictameter before, seems like an interesting form. I like the wry humour of this. The rictameter also makes it feel like a puff of anger that deflates with nowhere to go, and gives it an uncertainty that adds to its tone. Thanks for introducing me to a new form :)
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 joanie at 11:11 on 20 October 2018
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As I am late to this, I didn't know the original title. Yes, I used to love Pam Ayres years ago. I agree that yours are up there with hers, Mike! It is odd how some people just happen to make it. ...... right place, right time?
I didn't know the form either. I do enjoy 'form'. It works with this subject matter, I think, as Bazz said.
Keep writing!!
joanie
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 Cliff Hanger at 23:35 on 20 October 2018
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I wouldn't stand for a put down like that but my group has just split over irreconcilable differences so I might not be best placed to comment.😊
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Apparently a bad rhyme is more popular than a good poem 
