This is a bit sexist, isn't it, Gar? I think it's quite funny though. It
has a nice tone and I like the controlled shape. I think I'd change the
title though. How about 'We will all wear flat caps when we're bald'?
--Christina
I remember once I referred to Henry James and E.M.Forster as a couple of old
women, and I was nearly lynched by the feminist brigade. Probably I deserved
it. I feel you are treading the same dangerous ground here.
--grasshopper
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Thanks. No argument that the title may not be PC. But I came by it
honestly. Tuesday at the Poetry Festival, I heard it several times, both in
and out of a panel discussion on the future of poetry. The context was in
terms of those with their minds closed to new. Of course, there is no doubt
that closemindness is not limited to women, old ro not, but is shared by
every age and sex (yesterday, I heard it mostly from young and male). At
any rate, the title presented itself and the poem followed for better or
worse, tar and feathered or not.
In the end, an admission the scribbler as bad as anyone else.
Gary
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