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Had fun in church this morning, trying not to laugh at my neighbour.  People were nattering through the notices and without a hint of irony she turned to me as the vicar was imparting something important and said, ‘I hate it when people talk through the announcements.’

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The Writer’s Island prompt this week is ‘titles’.  We must take an album and use the song titles as they are to make a poem.  I couldn’t find inspiration that way so I have taken the song titles from Blondie’s Parallel Lines and used only those words but not in order:

Parallel Lines

I happen on you, one Sunday,
just hanging glass.
I’m gonna radiate heart;
love this, too.

But baby, will I fade away?
Know, pretty girl: anything.
Or know of another way.

Picture the telephone:
11:59.
Go away.
And don’t.

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I never said it would be good!  Here are the titles:

• Hanging on the Telephone
• One Way or Another
• Picture This
• Fade Away and Radiate
• Pretty Baby
• I Know But I Don’t Know
• 11:59
• Will Anything Happen?
• Sunday Girl
• Heart of Glass
• I’m Gonna Love You Too
• Just Go Away

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And here’s a little poem about titles in general:

The Thing About Poems Is

titles
are
vital