Bill & Ben

by CD Richards

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Now, Bill and Ben were flow'r pot men,
(if you can get my drift);
Young Bill stole Ben's last stash of weed,
which led to quite a rift.

But Ben found more, and so did Bill,
soon they were off their faces;
which led to fisticuffs at first,
then pistols at ten paces.

A shot rang out, and Ben fell down,
he bled out there and then.
Bill, too, got hit, but just a graze,
and he is on the mend.

The moral to this ditty is,
don't smoke that wacky backy,
or you'll become a basket case,
and start a monomachy.

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Today's word: monomachy (n.) a fight between two lone combatants; a duel.

"Bill & Ben, the Flower Pot Men" is a children's TV programme, which first aired on the BBC in 1952.

My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.

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Warning: contains drug references

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