with pen in hand...

For a good while a few of us have tossed posts and comments back and forth. A lot of different personalities around here.

Let's try this ...

I am going to start off with a sentence ... someone post the next rhyming line as a comment

and take the poem in whatever direction you choose. Only one line at a time and no back to back posting.

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In eighteen hundred and eighty-six ... the fair haired maiden needed a fix;