Summer chills

I reached for a thriller
as holiday beach reading,
my spine a whole lot chiller
while corpses lay a-bleeding:
What evil under the sun?
I confess to no remorse:
‘And Then There Were None’
by grande dame Christie, of course!

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A response to a fine tweet by Neil Philip, folklorist:

You can't beat the classics
for reading on the beach.
This year, Hesiod
was always within reach.
But as all the girls
were easy lays,
I didn't get far
with Works and Days.

Marcus Argentarius

— Neil Philip (@neilphilipmyth) July 11, 2019

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