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10-Arresting Airs

Arresting Airs

He dreaded bounty huntresses in pairs,

so was a little bit concerned to see

2 chicks beside him stealing furtive stares 

inside the city’s public library

whose reading room was his local hideout.

Therein, thoughts of incriminating sex

were limited to wards intent to flout

his sensibilities by keeping checks

on him. Indeed, seduced by one dame’s yawn

he was finagled like a fish to bite

her bit, whereon he later on was drawn  

to her who quickly rushed him out of sight.

Conveyed to her interrogation room,

he first would not confess to her, then spilled

the beans she kindled with her strong perfume.

As consequence for having been thus grilled,

his courtship sentenced him to live his life

till death beside this captivating wife.

Frank De Canio

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