If my name were Allison
Eduardo Jackaway Markham Spicer
Shillelagh Samothrace Burns
Eliot Commonplace Thoroughgood
Jones Endoplasm Jiminy
Cargill Archer McFleeter
Rebecca Cuthbert Monkingham
Ledbelly Hartwick Shields
Bork Canton Sparkplug McGee
I would go by Allison McGee
or maybe simply “Sparkplug.”
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Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 5:36 pm
This is one of the most important poems of our times.