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C. P. Surendran

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A hunt for the royal pun
Took him around the room
Which was not unlike a notebook
Bursting with rough work.
The trail
Led him under the table
Where he found her old letters
Explaining her love in detail
Two years before she set sail
From him. The same day
He wrote the replies
And mailed them to himself
Regretting the delay.
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For the Record

A hunt for the royal pun
Took him around the room
Which was not unlike a notebook
Bursting with rough work.
The trail
Led him under the table
Where he found her old letters
Explaining her love in detail
Two years before she set sail
From him. The same day
He wrote the replies
And mailed them to himself
Regretting the delay.

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