Youre probably right Bob. SallyE
on 4/6/02 5:02 pm, Bob Cooper at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi SallyE,
> I like this... but wonder if it doesn't lose it's power as it gets to the
> end? (Or it might just be me that can't see all of what's going on in the
> ending!). I sense it starts so powerfully and I want the ending to be as
> dum-de, dum-de, strong as witty and make-me-laugh as I feel I've been
> expecting.
> Bob
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>>> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 10:19 PM
>>> Subject: New poem: for Deborah
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>>> For Deborah and all internet poets
>>> [OK folks you might not know Deborah but it shouldnt matter]
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>>> Wouldnąt Dylan Thomas have loved the internet
>>> wouldnąt Tennyson have hated it
>>> wouldnąt Homer have made use of it
>>> wouldnąt Vergil have been afraid of it
>>> but used it anyway
>>> wouldnąt Sylvia have had something to say
>>> to the whole world
>>> wouldnąt Ted have said
>>> internet you are only a daffodil
>>> then wondered what he meant by that
>>> in his strange dramatic poetry mode
>>> wouldnąt all his women have succumbed
>>> Ted and Sylvia will you leave us alone
>>> to be poets
>>> Wouldnąt 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
>>> wouldnąt Browning have had theories about the internet
>>> woulnąt Elizabeth B have utilised it
>>> wouldnąt Hopkins have developed our secret vice
>>> wouldnąt Stevie have laughed
>>> wouldnąt Wordsworth have internationalised
>>>
>>> wouldnąt Coleridge have overdosed
>>> wouldnąt 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 wouldnąt they
>>> couldnąt I go on
>>>
>>> you started me off on this Deborah
>>> by writing a poem I was sure Dylan Thomas wouldąve liked
>>>
>>> in beat mode
>>> Sally Evans
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