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Title: The Kettle Whistle
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Length: 41
Content Notes: Rime couée; POV Holmes
Summary: Holmes after Victor Trevor leaves for Terai
Author's Note: Follows my fic Correspondence, in which Victor Trevor ends up saying goodbye to Holmes in a 6 word telegram (after pouring his heart out in draft letters).


The kettle whistle makes me bristle so.

Reminds me tea is here, is near. And oh!

A telegram’s a curt epistle, no?

What bitter dregs for friends!

This tragic act, it ends

With me, and tea, made foul by wistful woe!


Comments

ext_1620665: knight on horseback (Default)
[identity profile] scfrankles.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 7th, 2016 11:39 am (UTC)
I liked the extra rhymes you worked in: "whistle", "bristle so" and "epistle, no?" Very neat. And a neat connection - of course Holmes would have been left with a rather poignant association when it came to tea.
ext_1789368: okapi (Default)
[identity profile] okapi1895.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 7th, 2016 12:03 pm (UTC)
Thank you! At least I have something for this challenge. I am also taking small hobbit's suggestion and trying to work on a poem about cab whistles. Not sure if it will come together.
[identity profile] thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 7th, 2016 12:26 pm (UTC)
Poor Sherlock. If only they'd communicated better.

But yay for the kettle whistle. If your cab whistle poem doesn't come together in time, you could always post it for Amnesty.
ext_1789368: okapi (Okapi)
[identity profile] okapi1895.livejournal.com wrote:
Jun. 7th, 2016 03:29 pm (UTC)
Thank you for the inspiration! True. Yeah, Victorians!

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