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Tricksy

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Not the wife of Norton

More like the creature

In the cave

On an island

In the lake

Who paddled

Throttled fish

Or goblins

And had one precious thing

That in the contest for it

He was sure

He had been hoodwinked

Of it

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Which is an approach

To life

For some

To foresee and draft

A plan for taking

What’s desired

Or escape

Or something else from Earth

To own

Maybe to give away

The planet as a medium

For catch-and-release

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Or an item

To pull out

From time to time

Like a jewel from the safe

Of one’s own

Righteous things

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Something not to adjudicate

But to employ

When the thick is thin

And we in

The thick and thin of it

And this recourse will help

With or without

Preamble

Or an ongoing commentary

To say

Look at this clever thing I’m doing

It will save our bacon

Should we have any bacon

Either way

Quandary resolved

Some measure of escape

And I picked up something helpful

On the way out

Into daylight

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The thief’s

The hero’s testimony

And we allow

What’s taken

As an exigent chapter

In the story

Of the quest

That passed under mountains

In the dark

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Go Westmarch, Young Hobbit

(paean-ish)

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Silly hobbit

Writing as if at Bree

In a room above

The raucous tributes

Below

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Not in the study

Preparing contributions

To the read book

That is so important

It is red

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But there is time

For twilight

And smoke rings

Beer and cake

Or something better

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Maybe watch

For someone to come by

Whom we anticipate

Especially

When not there

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And Middle-Earth goes by

And we ponder

Dancing steps

That might please Bombadil

While Goldberry

Marks the time

With other details

Of the party

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(title a corruption of advice by Horace Greeley)

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