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Posts Tagged perhaps even hotter. I wasn’t competing. At least not that I knew. And though neither of us could be in two places at once

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January 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner!

I am from Hawke’s Bay where we’re good at the weather. The best. World class Don’t believe me? Ask my dad! I made that mistake only yesterday in fact. Didn’t even realise it at the time, he asked what I was doing… It’s hot, I explained. Real hot. Down here. So hot right now. But […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged and both of us seemed happy right where we were, Chicken Dinner!, he asked what I was doing… It’s hot, he had won the weather again. Of that he was certain. The red ribbon again. Burning hot. YES!, I am from Hawke’s Bay where we’re good at the weather. The best. World class Don’t believe me? Ask my dad! I made that mistake only yesterday in fact. Didn’t even realise it at the time, I explained. Real hot. Down here. So hot right now. But it was hot where he was, perhaps even hotter. I wasn’t competing. At least not that I knew. And though neither of us could be in two places at once, Poem, Poem: Winner Winner, Poem: Winner Winner Chicken Dinner, Winner Winner Chicken Dinner ·

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