A Man, A Plan, A Canal, PanamaA Story by Wulfstan Crumble
A note on palindromes:
An English palindrome was first written by the English poet John Taylor. It required the letters to be fully reversible like thus A B C D C B A. John Taylors read thusly; Lewd I did live & evil I did dwel. Now he obviously cheated. Firstly he used an ampersand and secondly he misspelt dwell. Mad Carmen started this off by writing a wonderful Greco-Roman palindrome. Here the whole sentences words were reversible. For example, Jack loves Jill, not Jane which when reversed reads Jane, not Jill, loves Jack. For my piece I have attempted the Greco-Roman tradition as I feel it is easiest even if it is not the most popular form in English. For the middle piece, the connecting word I have chosen my favourite English style palindrome This palindrome is clearly insane: Jeff and June By seven bullets were felled. Inside. Thus, Without dying were Ramoses insanely scrabbling. Blood pouring. veins emptying. Shot after shot fired Outside. Gun withdrawn, a gangster that tagged Exploding Jake Bullets herd, Exited. Quietly pointing his Gun. Looking. Everyone. Tother smirked. Bomb a laid He Smiled. Can I kill them? Said another. To plan. A finished plan! Magnificent! Assassins too! Hernandez rubbed his hands. Ramoses, Jeff? Did they nod? You tyrant American! Anne, this is for You. He turned To his Russian doll. make Up. Look, smile. You need money? Yes. Plan one right? Simple. Bomb it. Destroy! Insane plan A is: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama! Is a plan. Insane! Destroy it! Bomb! Simple, Right? One plan. Yes? Money? You need? Smile. Look up Make dole. Russian? His too? Turned he. You! For, is this an American tyrant? You? Nod they did. Jeff Ramoss hands, his, rubbed Hernandez Two Assassins. Magnificent plan! Finished a plan too! Another said. Them? Kill? I can! Smiled He. Laid a bomb. Smirked tother. Everyone looking. Gun! His pointing; quietly exited Everyone heard Bullets Jake exploding Tagged that gangster! A withdrawn gun Outside. Fired shot after shot Emptying veins. Pouring blood Scrabbling insanely; Ramoses were dying without. Thus, inside, felled were bullets seven by June and Jeff. © 2008 Wulfstan Crumble |
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Added on February 8, 2008 AuthorWulfstan CrumbleCirencester, England, and Kishiwada, Osaka, United KingdomAboutWulfstan Crumble is a 27 year old Englishman. He is currently working on a plethora of pieces for various anthologies and magazines (hoping not all will get rejected). He really hopes that some o.. more..Writing
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