AN ALLITERATIVE NURSERY TALE
   FOR GROWN-UPS

• Jack and Jill joyfully journeyed together
• up Apple Orchard Hill, for at the top
• was a well of icy water where wishes were granted.
• Arrived, they revolved the rusty rattling handle
• and, breathless, bailed a brimming bucketful.
• He eagerly, hopefully, offered her a draught.
• The lustrous liquid lapped her lips, and then
• the tip of her tongue tested, tasted: she drank;
• and after offered him two apples — ripe,
• skin smooth as silk, so sweet to taste — that he
• tenderly touched and took;
• these gifts given, agree
• both to abandon the book
• and follow their fancy free.

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