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Ok, I confess...

to being a hairy-arsed, smelly fella            
a resigned, belching, farting, grubby Vet'          
who's seventy-six-year-old eyeballs, yella'd          
with ginned jaundice the nearer death I get,            
           
I muse, picking my toes with a finger        
and sniffing that sweet smell of gross excess,            
rolling from my pit where a smell lingers            
of something dubious, a late night guest?            
           
Not! some cheeky, crusading, chubby lass,            
a junior oik in a provincial rag,            
who doesn't get bylines just dirty tasks            
like BMD's & Obit's, it's a drag,            
           
Yah!, I cribbed those from the  ' Daily Express  '            
There! That's a double, " Ok, I confess..."
Written by Rew
Published | Edited 5th Sep 2024
Author's Note
MidnightSonneteer and
another contest set this off
and again it's not what was
asked for. Not entirely.

(I find one can shed a syllable or two just pluralising some words. Very useful. And get a ¼ or ½ line of extra info into a fixed verse form by leading in with the title, brill, eh? eh?)
And why " 76 " cos seventy-six has a poetic ring to it.
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