on 7/1/02 2:09 pm, James Bell at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Now this could be subtitled "a fatal pastiche". Fatal because PC here lives
> up to its promise of being doomed to fail in any situation and because
> pastiches rarely equal the original in force. There's a hail lot stuffed in
> here so the focus of the bridge is marvellously lost. A sonnet for
> MacGonagall to be proud of.
>
> bw
> James
>
Thanks James! If anyone wants to know what a hath is, I'll be throwing mine
in the ring soon at this rate!!!! Did you know MacGonagal knew all of
Shakespeares sonnets by heart and recited them regularly.
--- an unperturbed Sally-ee
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>> From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: New sub: PC version...
>> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:48:29 +0000
>>
>> PC version of Upon Westminster Bridge
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>> Earth hath not anything to show more fair.
>> Dull would he or she be of soul who could pass by
>> a sight so touching in its popular consensus leadership.
>> The commerce zone now doth like the autumn bear
>> the beauty of the morning: un-noise polluted, traffic-free,
>> ships, twin towers, millennium domes, theatres and places of worship lie
>> open unto the fields and to the ozone layer,
>> all bright and glittering in the regularly monitored air.
>> Never did sun more beautifully steep
>> in its first splendour valley, outdoor climbing facility, or hill,
>> Nešer saw I, never felt a relaxation technique so deep:
>> the river glideth at its own fattening will
>> Hi religious deity, the very residential units seem asleep,
>> and all that mighty heart is lying still.
>>
>> Sally-ee
>> (sorry some of the lines are ather long)
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> bw
> James
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