I know what I would have done without the Internet. sat down and become a
cabbage.
I retired a while ago and did nothing but mill around doing some part time
lecturing at College and generally running downhill fast. My 4 year old
Grandson convinced me I needed to stop smoking and instead of doing that
while watching my garden grow I went out onto the Internet,
I had been until then an isolate in poetic terms, I knew no poets met none
read lots wrote a little. I discovered the world is full of poets and better
still full of poetry. I have written over a hundred poems since I stopped
smoking 19 months ago.
Porn and poetry that's the Internet; life in microcosm!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:19 PM
Subject: New poem: for Deborah


For Deborah and all internet poets
   [OK folks you might not know Deborah but it shouldnt matter]

Wouldn¹t Dylan Thomas have loved the internet
wouldn¹t Tennyson have hated it
wouldn¹t Homer have made use of it
wouldn¹t Vergil have been afraid of it
           but used it anyway
wouldn¹t Sylvia have had something to say
          to the whole world
wouldn¹t Ted have said
        internet you are only a daffodil
        then wondered what he meant by that
        in his strange dramatic poetry mode
        wouldn¹t all his women have succumbed
Ted and Sylvia will you leave us alone
        to be poets
Wouldn¹t Herrick have loved the internet
        never mind his rusticated village
        he could have gone on being important
        as we all go on being important
        when we have seen through the metropoles
        and adopted out own particular countrysides
wouldn¹t Browning have had theories about the internet
wouln¹t Elizabeth B have utilised it
wouldn¹t Hopkins have developed our secret vice
wouldn¹t Stevie have laughed
wouldn¹t Wordsworth have internationalised

wouldn¹t Coleridge have overdosed
wouldn¹t they
what would Shakespeare have done
        well really he was a dramatist
        stuff being a poet
        he did that in his spare time
        like us
well wouldn¹t they
couldn¹t I go on

you started me off on this Deborah
by writing a poem I was sure Dylan Thomas would¹ve liked

in beat mode
Sally Evans