On the way to Lulworth<\/p>\n
Mike and Penny occasioned a tea house<\/p>\n
That sold nothing but<\/p>\n
Boswell\u2019s London Journal 1762-1763<\/i><\/p>\n
A fifties edition<\/p>\n
Signed by the Queen<\/p>\n
The teahouse was called<\/p>\n
Review Riva <\/i><\/p>\n
And was on the main Weymouth Road<\/p>\n
Mike was assembling notes<\/p>\n
For a book that he intended to write<\/p>\n
It would be called<\/p>\n
The Graves of Algerian Poets <\/i><\/p>\n
Penny was looking out of the window<\/p>\n
At the perspex purple passers-by<\/p>\n
She was also writing in the light condensation<\/p>\n
The answers to small mathematical problems<\/p>\n
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