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The Red Well-Read Reader

Story 55

Wait on and Weight Off

There is: There is:
The wait on the tables The eating plate

The wait in the lines, and The license plate
The weight off the dieters The name plate
The head plate

There is: The hair plait
The sea strait, and

The dire straits There is:
There is: The fishing bait

The straight line The nagging bait
The straight flush The hounding bait,

The straight ahead The teasing bait
The straight answer
The straight character & And there is:

The character trait The girl ate, and
The boy eight

Story 56
Scathed

Derrick got badly scathed

Cut by the blade of a lathe.

So in i•o•dine his finger had to be bathed,

Then of course in a bandage swathed,

Then later unswathed,

But unhealed, re-swathed,

Then, finally, fully healed, once more unswathed.

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