a double-acrostic egg-timer of a poem
     for dave on his twenty-ninth birthday
 
beware time at its saturn ebb
or bar its charismatic echo
it flatters with confetti
liaises an unreal trail
energy loses its core
denies a new thread
 
effort's a bore
guiltwracking
gimcracking
stagnates
 
salivates
getcracking
grailtracking
excitatory lore
 
dreams newly landed
eggs being mythic ore
let this vision prevail
in a cut shell's graffiti
orisons were feasted - ergo
be alive to the next wise orb
 
        first and last lines have 29 letters and spaces
              lines starting with same letter rhyme (more or less)
                
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