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A chapter in the book A Potpourri of Poetic Curiosities

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by CD Richards

 
Now, I don't care to hassle or harangue,
but I've no wish at all to see you hang.
Avoid latrocination;
it's not a good vocation.
Don't take the path embraced by Kelly's gang.
 




Today's word: latrocination (n.) robbery; theft.

Ned Kelly is Australia's most famous bushranger (highwayman). He was hanged in 1880.

My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.

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