on 6/1/02 1:09 pm, Perpetua Pullman at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> what an interesing poem Gary, I just love the idea of words slithering
> across the page like a snake in the garden
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I think it's really good, Gary - would work on paper. I suppose it's capable
of extension. The only glaring omission is handwriting. web editors don't
have the pleasure of unreadable handwritten offerings that we paper mag
people get from time to time. I suppose you could use a typeface such as
palace script to have a joke about that. Sally-ee.
>
>> From: garydawg <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: New A poem to blame on Mary
>> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 15:13:43 -0800
>>
>> I sent this a bit earlier, but it apparently did not make it or at least
>> the archives do not show.
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>> Inspired by Mary's Lunch in the Nude work.
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>> I have it up on my homepage this month and may leave it there to play
>> around with for a bit.
>> Any suggestions for added weirdness welcome.
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>> *
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>> A Poem to Blame on Mary for No Good Reason
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>>
>> I enjoy the look of poetry set
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>> in blocks of text, each line
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>> of a like length, even though
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>> the count may vary, each
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>> stanza of four or five lines.
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>> in
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>> Garden.
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>> If I change the font, pitch,
>> the
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>> add bold or italics I suspect
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>> the lines would
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>> wander around
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>> like a
>> snake
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>> without control or
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>>
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>> stop
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>>
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>> way short of where they sh
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>> ould.
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>>
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>> If I wrote on an old Royal,
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>> would the lines cooperate
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>> up
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>> or wiggle and like
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>> down worms
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>> on
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>> a
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>> f
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>> i
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>> s
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>> h k
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>> oo.
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>> Worse, I could write in
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>> my nearly in%$#preh+
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>> ?sible cu@}ive u&read
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>> ab&^ by even me and
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>> have the words b< us<
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>> less unl<ss the p><m surr<al.
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>>
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>> BLOCK LETTERS MIGHT
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>> HELP BUT BLOCK LETTERS
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>> ALL LOOK ALIKE WHEN
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>> SET IN BLOCKS OF TEXT.
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>> Best to keep at what I do -
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>> New Times Roman, 14
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>> pt - tapped out on a white
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>> screen thanks to Microsoft
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>> and Gateway.
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>> Even if sometimes, I don't quite c
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>> ut it.
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>> January guest Nat at: http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html,
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>> Submissions: http://www.writershood.com/index.html
>>
>> Poets for Peace. ˇPoemas sí, balas no!
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> Perpetua Pullman
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