as boats came drifting, effortlessly floating, gently humming, i just kept listening - my now obscure poetic quips returning, silently trailing unusable verbs while xhosas yelled, 'zebras!'

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the alphabet poem (sometimes called an abc poem) is similar to the acrostic but, as its name suggests, it uses the letters of the alphabet in order, sometimes in the words that make up the poem or sometimes at the beginning of the lines of the poem.