haiku
roses are red, violets are blue*
this haiku don't rhyme,
but then, why should it?


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*violets are of cousrse violet, but that doesn't scan. The clue is in the question, why are they called violets?
You don't go to the sweetie shop and buy a packet of parma blues, that taste like chemicals.
You don't use gentian blue as an anti-thrush medicine, because it is not blue.
Blue storm is not a heavily tattooed porn performer (actually, she might be), but Violet IS.

Violets are not blue.
Roses are not (always) red.


But:
There WAS a young girl from Nantuckett

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(etchi, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 23:09, Reply)