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		<title>Mastermind Haiku Subverted (7 5 7)</title>
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	<p>Your specialist subject is:<br />
Disney princesses.<br />
We have failed as a nation.</p>
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		<title>Monthly Haikus</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[January Can’t be arsed yet let the sales sail by till June wake me when I’m sunk. February I ache for anti-freeze just kick-start me secretly dilute with porridge. March...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>January</strong></p>
<p>Can’t be arsed yet<br />
let the sales sail by till June<br />
wake me when I’m sunk.</p>
<p><strong>February</strong></p>
<p>I ache for anti-freeze<br />
just kick-start me secretly<br />
dilute with porridge.</p>
<p><strong>March</strong></p>
<p>Go hare spotting, erect<br />
long ears, bulging beady eyes<br />
avoid the mirror.</p>
<p><strong>April</strong></p>
<p>Come she will, if not<br />
take her roughly from behind<br />
perhaps in disguise.</p>
<p><strong>May</strong></p>
<p>Bloody bank holidays<br />
who really cares? one day off !<br />
the employed you slob.</p>
<p><strong>June</strong></p>
<p>Factor eight upon<br />
your frizzling pate, egg bald coot<br />
I’ll have chips with you.</p>
<p><strong>July</strong></p>
<p>Recall seventy six<br />
what a scorcher, hosepipe ban,<br />
yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh.</p>
<p><strong>August</strong></p>
<p>Come she must, if not<br />
search for the g spot, prepare<br />
to be amazed sir.</p>
<p><strong>September</strong></p>
<p>Many things seem to end<br />
yet many things seem to begin<br />
how very confusing.</p>
<p><strong>October</strong></p>
<p>Neither here nor there,<br />
Cold then hot, dark then not, what<br />
An in-between-er.</p>
<p><strong>November</strong></p>
<p>Time of burns, not scalds<br />
Of intricate plots by dummies<br />
Stuffed with old clothes.</p>
<p><strong>December</strong></p>
<p>The month I came out,<br />
No not the closet, the womb<br />
And man loved the moon.</p>
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<p><strong>Listen</strong></p>
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