Hi Christina,
No, the poem hasn't failed to get that across who Satan's Sweeper is! I was
just meandering... But, to put the title as Headline and Byline might make
it clearer.
I just love the wackyness of the style - the way the repetitions work in
creating such a dysfunctional character.
Bob
>From: Christina Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: Pet Pooch Pinched by Satan's Sweeper (Bob)
>Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 02:43:15 EST
>
>Oh no, pass the Prozac...
>Bob, I'm going to have to tell you the plot (triggered by the Sunday
>Sport
>headline, 'Pet Pooch Pinched by Satan's Sweeper'). Or perhaps that should
>read 'PET POOCH PINCHED' by Satan's Sweeper, since s/he's the narrator.
>SS
>is a sweeper in a Mumbai salon for pets. And SS is going to EAT pet pooch.
>Horrors!
>OK, so the pome's completely failed to convey any of this, but I did enjoy
>writing it. It was so easy to slip into the mindframe. By the way, have
>you
>seen the recipe for dog in an earth oven (careful not to use toxic leaves,
>such as rhubarb)?
>bw
>christina
>PS No matter how tempted you may be, never say 'No bollocks' to a
>Rotweiler.
>
> > Hi Christina,
> > I won't ask where yr poems are coming from right now... merely accept
>that
> > I'm delighted they're turning up!
> > Sometimes when I read this I wonder if it's a dog that's doing the
> > speaking... then I wonder who else could be telling me all this? And
> > there's
> > a scatty image of someone with loadsa plastic cards and white gloves as
> > long
> > as it takes her to get round to saying what she wants to say. The poem
> > takes
> > its time, tho, in a delightful way!
> > I'm chuckling, chuckling. Today I even muttered "no bollocks" as I
>passed
> > some little scruffy dog smirking into the wind - for no other reason
>than
> > I'd read it in yr poem!
> > And the title? Yeh!
> > Bob
>
>
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