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Radio Announcer:
This is the BBC Home Service. "Five Minutes of Free Verse". William Blake:
We can do without that. Radio Announcer:
Here is Reginald Willoughby-Cruft who will read a group of poems by Milton Boyle entitled "Vicious Cycle." Reginald Willoughby-Cruft:
"Her beauty has a kind of ugliness, a strangulated loveliness, compressing the jugular of my sensitivity as ivy tourniquets trunk of tree turning the arboreal royalty into beanpole servitors. Burying the berries in a fruitless operation so that the name of her - Ann... Ann... Asininely monosyllabic. The mere label she goes by. Yet pulsing with a drum beat. Ann - Ann - Ann - Ann!" Ann, I can't go on. Listen to me, wherever you are. You can go to your blasted vacuum cleaner. I'm through. Through, through, through, through... Radio Announcer:
We must apologise to listeners for a slight technical hitch. And that brings us to the end of broadcasting for tonight. Goodnight, everybody. Goodnight
This is the BBC Home Service. "Five Minutes of Free Verse". William Blake:
We can do without that. Radio Announcer:
Here is Reginald Willoughby-Cruft who will read a group of poems by Milton Boyle entitled "Vicious Cycle." Reginald Willoughby-Cruft:
"Her beauty has a kind of ugliness, a strangulated loveliness, compressing the jugular of my sensitivity as ivy tourniquets trunk of tree turning the arboreal royalty into beanpole servitors. Burying the berries in a fruitless operation so that the name of her - Ann... Ann... Asininely monosyllabic. The mere label she goes by. Yet pulsing with a drum beat. Ann - Ann - Ann - Ann!" Ann, I can't go on. Listen to me, wherever you are. You can go to your blasted vacuum cleaner. I'm through. Through, through, through, through... Radio Announcer:
We must apologise to listeners for a slight technical hitch. And that brings us to the end of broadcasting for tonight. Goodnight, everybody. Goodnight
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This is the BBC Home Service
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Five minutes of free verse
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We can do without that
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Here is Reginald Willoughby Cruft
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who will read a group of poems by Milton Boyle entitled Vicious Cycle
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Her beauty has a kind of ugliness
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A strangulated loveliness
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Compressing the jugular of my sensitivity As ivy tourniquets trunk of tree
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Turning the arboreal royalty into beanpole servitors
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Burying the berries In a fruitless operation
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So that the name of her Ann
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Ann
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Asininely monosyllabic
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The mere label she goes by
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Yet pulsing with drum beat
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Ann Ann Ann Ann
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Ann I can't go on Listen to me wherever you are
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You can go to your blasted vacuum cleaner
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I'm through Through through through through
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We must apologise to listeners for a slight technical hitch
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And that brings us to the end of broadcasting for tonight
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Movie Summary
An assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.
