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Poems People
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by
Thomas James Allen

  1. Fawn Born
  2. A Stray Grayed Shaded Day
  3. Under The Indigo Rainbow
  4. In My Poetry
  5. Zoey's Eyes
  6. Yes, Love Evolves
  7. Water Cycle One
  8. A Moo
  9. Denise, The Nice
  10. Seesaw Sea
  11. Alice, A Lass
  12. Mnemony
  13. Angry Wound
  14. Worse
  15. Poetamedication
  16. Cowtales
  17. Oelder
  18. Ohm
  19. Utter Complexities
  20. Ourstory

My other poetry books:
Dog Grrl!
Still Minor

Alice, A Lass

Al has a lass, Alice.
Alice, alas, has Al, an ass,
And Al has a lack, alas.

Al is lacking all a lass like Alice has;
Al is selling Alice, alas.
Selling a lass as Al has Alice,
Allows a lass at least a look about.
Sealing a lock about a lass as Alice
(a lousy aleck Al is)
Allows Alice, a lass, at last aloose about.

Alice, all lace, owl eyes, a lusty pout;
What a doll is Alice, a lass!
What at all about laughs a lass as Alice?
Would that all whose sale is a lass, alas,
Would all lose his lass as Al has Alice.
Al has a lack, a loss, unlucky;
Alice, a lass, at last unlocked, a key.

Alone, a lass, unowned at last,
Unknown allows a laugh;
Who else? Alice, a lass.



Notes:
Written 01-14-1983, with major revisions 1985, 1988 and 1994, and many minor revisions.

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