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A my name is Annie and I skip the light fandango with a nod to faroff Saturn as I ring around the Sun

B my name is Bradford and I hope to be a broker and behold the city’s vistas in a highrise luxy condo

C my name is Candice and I left my lazy lover for a brace of yapping Corgis and I feel just like a queen

D my name is Darkseid not Darth Vader who came after and I’m clumsy at this jumprope but absurdity is fun

E my name is Elmo and I act just like a baby but I’m looking for a publisher to do my autobio

F my name is Franny and I walked out of a novel so to turn my bleak dysfunction over to a Baptist choir

G my name is Gary and I turn in this assignment as I beat a hasty exit so as not to trip and f

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April and Allergies Start with an A

April and Allergies start with an A

And Hay Fever starts with an aspirant H

And here I am faced with a tough rhyme today–

Ah! I love Rachel Maddow. You’re Aces, dear Raitch!!

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Bee Pollen and Benadryl start with a B

But Pollen itself with a plosive, the P;

Bet Bolsheviks sneeze quite alliter’tively

Bitter that they are used and discarded for Free.

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Could we make an ingestion of Vitamin C

Casting out sneezy demons with one megadose?

Congestion will make us act desperately,

Cursing bugs that now turn us disturbingly gross.