Hello,
What a gullible person I am! I actually thought, upon reading the
"roommate" letter and smiling indulgently, "Oh, that's the sort of thing
which could happen to anyone, sending an e-mail while her roommate was
still logged on. How silly the girls must feel."
A shame, actually, if it was an act. Some of the postings were
interesting. Dare one say "creative?"
Since I, too, joined the discussion without introducing myself, I will do
so now. I am an American working woman, (a Texan!), "somewhat" past the
traditional college age, putting myself through school, as I have been
doing for many years.
I am currently writing my master's thesis in English about the
psychological significance of song lyric references in modern American
novels, and am very interested in poems, and in song lyrics. For several
years I was a disc jockey at various radio stations, and I have several
albums worth of (unpublished) poems and/or song lyrics.
Here is my very unworthy but well-intended homage to Emily Dickinson
regarding my life:
Work - to me - 'tis what I do
That I may go to -
School
And for most part - bearable
I'd hesitate -
T'were ill
Thus - ev'ry morn I - greet the Light
And seek out my appointed -
Place
I've sustenance and shelter
Books -
Are all the - Pay - I ask
A Mendicant of - Knowledge
To deny me -
Thankless Task
Lucy Chandler Brandt
(ED is one of my favorite poets; in fact I joined this group after having
learned of it from another group which discusses her work. Hope my poem
does not offend her.)
This is a wonderfully interesting and inspiring listserv. Some of the
poetry written by the members is astonishing!
Helen Hagemann, for example, your poem "The Only of Only Being Woman,"
brought tears to my eyes. I have printed it, and will keep it in my
scrapbook.
Thank you all,
Lucy
Joseph Duemer wrote:
> Roddy,
> While not all pretense is the same--some is funny, some provocative,
> etc--I agree that the recent presence on the list of several voices that
> all obviously emanate from the same source is destructive to good
> fellowship. As you note, the first casualty is good faith.
>
> So, Susanne, Sonia & Erminia, do I understand correctly that you're
> going on vacation? Perhaps you'll come back as yourself.
>
> Joe
>
> ________________________
> Joseph Duemer
> School of Liberal Arts-5750
> Clarkson University
> Potsdam NY 13699
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>
> "Always come down from the barren heights
> of cleverness into the green valleys of folly."
> ::Wittgenstein
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