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a2) Miss Abigal "Old Maid" Hipkins
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Earliest Days (1975-1977)
Miss Abigail "Old Maid" Hipkins
by Elizabeth Van Cleve
This woman?
She looks like a living corpse
The heaviest part of her
entire body is her nose
it is gargantuous
What is worse?
She is meaner than
she looks, simply hideous
Not even Superman
could have helped people
who have seen her
for the sight of her alone
causes instant death
The agonizing, insufferable,
putrid cackle of hers
can be heard within
a radius of twenty so miles
which is more than flesh
or blood can bear
and causes heavy shock
which then turns into raving
madness to commit suicide
Of course, Miss Abigail
"Old Maid" Hipkins is not
a human being
She's
a toy troll.
What an awsome character;
What an awsome character; I should not like to have met her or heard her cackle. An imaginative poem, creative and a story straight out of folklore. I like your poem very much.
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