>Asterisks jumping out from the text
>are similarly distracting.
Precisely. That may just be the point.
Not always, of course, but the poem may (& should?) let us know...
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
But the dead are wholehearted about being dead,
no half measures no shilly-shallying:
they're committed, dedicated
to purposelessness.
Al Purdy
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