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27. The secretary

Don’t go all casual

at her door, 

thinking you’ll need to

button the metaphors,

zip the similes.

Under this ‘Press Enter’

garb she’s a poet;

published and keen as a pin

lurking in a seam.

So, while you speak

s-l-o-w-l-y

she’s nipping at your skin.