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<title>Cheshire Norm</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2003/06/05/cheshire</biblioid>
<volumenum>6</volumenum>
<issuenum>30</issuenum>
<pubdate>2003-06-05</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2005-09-11 10:27:02 -0400 (Sun, 11 Sep 2005) $</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
    </author>
<copyright>
      <year>2003</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>As I was going up the stair / I met a man who wasn't there. /
He wasn't there again today. / I wish, I wish he'd go away.</para>
</abstract>
<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#SelfPortrait"/>
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<epigraph>
<attribution>Lewis Carroll</attribution>
<para xml:id="p1">...and this time it vanished quite slowly,
beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin,
which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.</para>
</epigraph>

<para xml:id="p2">Inspired by some
<link xlink:href="http://bibo.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=2931457201&amp;bibo=2">absurdity</link><footnote>
      <para xml:id="p3">I'm not sure how stable that link will be. At the
time of this writing it points to an <citetitle>ebay</citetitle> auction for
a <quote>Ghost in a Jar</quote>. The bid was up into the tens of thousands of
dollars when I was pointed to it. Anyway, among the ancillary material for the
item are some photos showing erzats ghosts around a quaint-looking little
cemetery.</para>
    </footnote> and the <emphasis>interminable gloom</emphasis> of
the past few weeks, I cooked up <citetitle>Ghost of Norm</citetitle>.</para>

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<para xml:id="p4">That was fun! Now I sure do wish the sun would shine.</para>

<literallayout>Rain, rain, go away!
Come again another day.</literallayout>

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