Isn't everything a haiku, in the end?
Jacek
----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: Poem
> Elizabeth
>
> You might like to know that as someone with an almost psychopathic hatred
of
> mobile-phones I enjoyed your frames immensely. Randolph's point again:
> overheard haiku.
>
>
> david b
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Elizabeth James <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 10:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Poem
>
>
> > ooh, thank you Alison! and to all who have kindly commented. The form of
> > presentation was suggested by the medium in which the thing was written,
> > evidently SMS messages. The rule was that all the pieces should be the
> > full 160 characters (they didn't all make it). I wanted to replicate the
> > irritating or enchanting interference of the tiny screen, which
> > determines lineation at the point of delivery and enforces a bit by bit
> > reading. ('Course here you *can open the frame in a new window; but the
> > texts are, for the most part designedly, 'scrappy' in the sense you
> > suggested A, remnants.)
> >
> > thanks
> > e
> >
> > >http://www.cottage.clara.net/txts
> >
> > >A tardy response to Elizabeth's and Ian D. Smith's _Between two
> > moons_ -
> > >thanks for that. I really enjoyed the game of working my way through
> > the
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