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2002-04-08 - 3:54 p.m. This morning while I was busy wrestling with my Pathology paper--2nd Professional Part III Examination for the MBBS (how's that sound to you, eh? fancy? but such a chore to write on six sheets of foolscap paper...), I had a little trapdoor that I slipped through, between the question about the 65-year-old woman who was autopsied for her breast carcinoma and the one about the pathogenesis of peptic ulcers (fascinating, I hear you say, just fascinating...). During that lapse of whimsy, a necessary one, mind you, everyone else was going scratch scratch scratch with their pens at the exam-itch, I compiled a list of words that you shouldn't use in your poetry if you ever want to be taken seriously, and here they are retrieved from my question paper, folded into eight parts to fit my jeans pocket-- 1) betwixt 2) daemons/faeries 3) zephyr 4) cerulean 5) twain 6) smegma 7) 'tis 8) unicorn 9) ere 10) will-o-the-wisp 11) cat-o-nine-tails 12) portugese-man-o-war 13) she-ra-princess-of-power 14) haemorrhoids 15) fuchsia (as in, a fuchsia dawn, or something) 16) auspicium melioris aevi (or any other latin school motto) 17) thee, thy, thou, thum, I smell the blood of an Englishman 18) twat 19) Osama 20) benign prostatic hyperplasia Yes, after this you're on your way to be a Poet! Just remember to polish up the spalling and the grammars.
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