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About Chris The Story Reading Ape

I am what my name states, an ape of the primate species called Homo Sapiens Sapiens. My blog is intended to present New (to me) Authors, whose stories or books I have read and enjoyed, so that anyone who happens to stumble onto this blog, while searching for a book to read, or, a new (to them) author to try, may find what they seek, or, at least, inspiration. I have also made the blog an Author Promotions Enterprise to be a platform for authors to introduce themselves to potential readers and to provide advice and tips resources information they can use to improve and enhance their story telling efforts. Please be advised that I reserve the right to remove, or decline to publish, any comments that I deem inappropriate.

The Hungry Vampire

There once was a vampire named Lake

Who entered a restaurant to eat steak.

A waitress called Moriah

Said, “you’re a vampire!”,

Are you sure you want that stake!”
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Copyright: Kevin Morris.

Free Air

The air outside the hospital is free.

I have walked the periphery

Of the hospital’s grounds and found

How dear the air is to me.

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It enters through my window

And calls to me of liberty

And says how below, people don’t know

The profundity of the air.
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Copyright: Kevin Morris.

When a Strange Young Lady Named Gwen

When a strange young lady named Gwen

Went and woke me at around 10,

And I said, “are you a nurse?

She said, “no! its far, far worse!”.

Then she showed her fangs did Gwen …!
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Copyright: Kevin Morris.

Hospital Humour

I know a pretty nurse in red

Who said, “you must get into bed!”.

I said, “that sounds nice!

But what is your vice!”,

Then she beat me around the head!

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Copyright: Kevin Morris.

Tedium

Nurses go to and thro.

While on the ward

The patients mostly feel bored.

Some watch daytime TV

Or sleep the day away.

As for me

I look forward to visiting time

And meantime rhyme.

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I find the nurses are kind.

They will chat

Of this and that.

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I grow fat

But try to exercise.

Its no surprise

That food breaks up the day

So patients eat

To keep the boredom at bay.

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At boarding school

The lights went out at 10.

The hospital’s rules

Are similar to them.

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Here there is no beer.

Lights stay on longer,

(But the nurses control them).

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I grow stronger

And desire my own bed

And private time

To indulge in rhyme.

. Copyright: Kevin Morris.

Always Write What you Know

When a young lady named Miss Flow

Said, “you must always write what you know”,

I wrote about her

And our sordid affair –

Now I’m corresponding with her lawyer called Joe …!
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Copyright: Kevin Morris.

How to Revive Our Reading Habits

An interesting article on how to revive our reading culture, in which the author argues that it is all to easy to blame technology when other factors are at work. To read the article please visit https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/how-to-revive-our-reading-culture/

Wine on the Ward

There once was a nurse named Maude

Who worked on a large hospital ward.

A patient called Divine

Sneaked in some wine,

So they kicked her off that ward!
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Copyright: Kevin Morris.

I am bored.

I am bored, but alive

And appear to thrive.

The hospital food is good,

But too much pud

Will make me very fat,

So I avoid that!

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I don’t miss my beer

As much as I thought I would,

But I wish I could

Make the day less drear with beer!

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I hear the seagulls cry

And I would fly

Away if I could

But I am stuck here

In this place drear.

Yet I am still alive

And appear to thrive!

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Copyright: Kevin Morris.