[New-Poetry] An Elephant Poem

[David Bircumshaw]

> When Rossetti died the contents auctioned off,
> and the elephant sold to a circus in Leeds. 
I like the story, James. A query: in US English do you use 'auctioned 
off' in that way? The sentence, to my mind, is screaming out for a 
missing 'were' before 'auctioned' or 'was' before 'sold' as the grammar 
of the sentence demands such but maybe that's just to British ears.

Best

Dave

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David Bircumshaw
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