"RAIN RAIN, RAIN"




				  by Mike Higgins


	               [HIGG05.01]





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HIGG05.01 and RIFT05.01 copyright (c) 1995. See below for full notice.

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Plough furrow, shear
face crock, thorough
lowing nine, cows
thru'

flew arouse, mine
glowing borough, shock
grace sheer, burrow
tao

leaf stretch, branch
chance blowing, rain
blame cane, ran
gain

ale soul, amorous
mussel gift, oye
docile hitch, kerb
lambs

llama crowd, circa
doggerel web, non-arts
massage amoral, south
ate

feel hatch, gnarled
knave wolf, enamels
near knead, rhone
tear

tier wan, rhine
knell fear, woollen
nacho nark, thirst
fail

oat worry, reel
cargo cush, garb
wode enigma, suave
wolfy

Ur swallow, anodine
awol, guru cork
cafe raj, wary
gulp

rain deign, rent
ran sane, flowing
glance retch, tetch
lief

tea house, aroma
assam strain, brew
gold rich, dark
all

small bark, glitch
cold you, feign
blossom pleroma, louse
flea

paint white, resound
line glow, clear
move plane, deeper
high

fly creeper, plain
shove seer, low
dine unbound, flight
taint

time innes, still
shard numen, black
edge seep, tick
flock

rhyme finis, sill
yard blumen, wrack
wedge sleep, crick
clock

joy kept, one
slow velocity, keep
wait fullness, oaken
scythe

boy wept, gone
grow eroticsea, weep
weight dullness, open
tithe

comfy sleep, safe
intimates eyes, affinity
deep close, touch
incredible

lumpy steep, wraith
anticipate lies, infinity
leap throws, much
indelible

wit again, stone
pure speckled, philosophe
tract art, us
ludo

judo fuss, tart
fact "kill us off", freckled
demure tone, ten hit
thumb

mast tender, watch
express me, come
gush torrent, his
bait

late is, abhorrent
slush dumb, her
sexless notch, cinder
blast

steep you, late
queen john, rose
light hurt, grate
drank

peep too, fate
been gone, knows
wright alert, satiate
rank

live there, plumb
pools, interior drive
maths jacaranda, bingo
pint

thrive where, slum
fools ulterior, dive
kayaks anaconda, dingo
kite.

catalyst do, guilt
prod the, stance
don't blind, free
stunted

anachronist woo, silt
god the, trance
honed grind, bee
affronted

gordon's salient, talent
latent stultify, dram
we propose, spurn
laity

cordon aliens, equivalent
intent crucify, cram
see apropos, sperm
deity

quantify judge, blake
probing last, order
sky prophet, and 
did

atrophy smudge, rake
robing grassed, morte d'
wry profit, sand
hid

school whale, public
vat pry, brother
crossed y, an
latin

fool hail, colic
vy cat, smother
tossed he, tan
matins

first rate, then
work demoiselle, paint
life still, cubing
novice

hirst hate, when
shirk embroil, faint
strife will, lubing
avarice

hone numb, bear
cramp pride, size
out well, scar
bye

methadone crumb, ware
lamp deride, rise
shout bell, spar
die

fern hang, satellite
twenty for, bed
muslin alter, presentiment
recognition

learn slang, aphrodite
plenty for, dead
moslem altar, interment
non-ignition

harp mnemonic, finger
string touch, buoyant
viol float, french
flute

sharp harmonic, linger
shingle crouch, voyant
mile gloat, clench
ablute

hug too, much
necessary drink, scream
release love, once
only

lonely ounce, dove
decease dream, brink
accessory such, flew
shrug

sloe root, flail
verve dance, proffer
aim distill, shine
moon

show fruit, grail
nerve glance, enfer
maim instill, shrine 
noon

smoke age, glean
fire ash, volcano
hut minus, fifty
orange

provoke rage, spleen
ire rash, rain grow
tut linus, shifty
derange

come let us
spray peter, saint
sound contrives, class
respect

forget mass, enliven
ground mained, litre
slay trust, wet
cum

clarity gone, insight
breathes rarer, air
shimmer late, alarm
hope

alacrity done, onsight
sheathes barer, lair
skimmer gate, dharma
isotope

early ely, spire
tribe cattle, pasture
amidst "call to pray", dawn
breaks

awakes fawn, "flair too pall"
tryst gesture, mettel
diatribe aspire, nearly
warily

bell told, me
where ship, moors
sink erroneous, monkly
knell

cell old, we
fair trip, yours
brink Suetonius, uncley
dell

unbearably rite, time
sonar us, affably
dog leap, scare
mary

blairably tight, crime
monad bus, laughably
frog cheap, spear
bleary

lira learn, ripsoul
ebb letter, rust
sirrah "lap hoot rifle", waif
sequitur

scree wad, "freya odd lack"
schema ruck, lectern
bier ripes, yule
yl-ray

potable martha, tag
rewhisk reel, rerabid
seth gist, node
eatallah

poe rally, ita
remiss rio, rerant
sabre gins, noel
tiara

aright leon, snide
brass nearer, eire
smirk attrition, iliad
eeyore

yarn fickle, "hellfire too pap"
hurries surly, retells
"be lousy pear", rail
aerial

barn tickle, "squallmire flew scrap"
harrass burleigh, he quells
"we drowsymear", jail
girly all

Kenco cup, rut
aware a, free
ka debt, whirled
bank

fool coerce, corrupt
inter map, free
cadet world, blank
cirrus

a dole, essence
hex cite, jung
mined hobs, lesion
"impasse liaison"

whirred, sushi
nation ah, satiation
association weird, bra
safety

clip cup, frapped
R.A.F. four, heads
freeze her, docked
glare

two three, nine
plus hundred, makes
and forty, twenty "one"
seventy

circus crank, furled
addict tree, palm
retina pumice, creon
loon

seem cleverer, hair
no while, brush
breeze thru', large
eyes.

deem leverer, snare
know guile, shush
trees shrew, barge
dries

roof slat, cross
link strength, cut
beam white, black
sky

sleuth gnat, dross
think tenth, slut
dream night, slack
why

college sculpt, art
green phoenix, rise
arch time, clove
sight

sleight drove, thyme
parch pies, phalanx
dean fart, pulped
collage

gallic peptic, trough
naiad xanadu, seep
crepe myopic, vaudeville
grail

serried grab, wash
sleet slush, lug
wink rains, rerevel
mend

elbidercni, hcuot
esolc peed, ytiniffa
seye setamitni, efas
peels yfcom

bin the, underpinning
wasp their, world
annexed with, blood
pith

sin a, blundering
copse fare, curled
next myth, should
miff

sea lean, eye
glass wavy, child
point chime, unleaven
for

gore heaven, mime
quoit wild, gravy
smash dry, glean
see

nine horses, cry
forty imagine, overland
rush adrenalin, cathedral
aspire

benign forces, scry
haughty pageant, clover-owed
hush mescalin, dodecahedral
inspire

thy me, par
check pi, cedar
ash grove, new
park

thigh tee, far
neck shy, free the
rash love, dew
lark

sun flan, feint
slatlantis boat, you
estimate flying, come
knightly

stun flam, saint
francis goat, gnu
westlegate shying, dumb
bite me

exceeding blue, homaged
deference starry, deeper
flailing nebula, slow
two

take fire, gesture
big make, lactic
current turret, spiral
outer

flake mire, bluster
twig drake, galactic
torrent flurry, diurnal
shouter

twist ear, off
fuck off, bask
market cricket, leg
before

over charge, under
freed dover, rink
wonder bleed, clip
brick

Nine scents to the
Scanty western leaf
Ear, mouths, eye
Among little few

pine fence, utter
dancy question, chief
beer crowds, rye
dung brittle dew

Tear the temper driven
End, End - Listen won't story
calm; children whiten to
horses

clear for distemper given
tend, tend - glisten font brings
palm; gilden enlighten no
forceps

Distalf in a leaped
year; yolk in wayward
May, to fastest centuries
I CLEAR, to them

this staff thin far creeped
near; folk win slayford
day, who nastiest trench for ease
why tear, do hem.

collect ending, nerve
kick hymn, in
breach book, moonlight
three

Deck wending swerve
lick wind, in creatured
brook, full night for
me.

Momentum lyric, git
our chord, ring
planetary song, slumming
aesthetic

Wensum spirit, wit sour
waning leary gong, in lord
low drumming and spring
magnetic

dee effigy, sing
larmes lab, raider
fiddle try, tone
vale

galleon cloud, mistrale
ecstat winter, arles
guns hot, red vineyard
stomach

subtle cliff, dye
lenin colour, own
astral owe, stupor
haemorrhage

swift tuttle, dire
blenheim dolor, trowelled
pastoral hue, vituperate
hem-marriage

local commotion, sparrow
flap trap, lichen
cow sharing, them
belge.

gravy tree, stones
boat rave, briars
dissent richer, trust
pass

twat has, a
cupcake lot, meant
mandrake flat, as
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