Hi Tony,
Not an easy poem to say things about... but I think the poem starts with:
"no churned body for today's chat show hosts

as elephants land again

"Don't the soft pinkoes know it's a dun' deal?"

(At least that's where the rhymical words seem to get going. The earlier
lines seem weak.) (And should there be lines between your lines? Or are you
posting in RTF - or cutting & pasting from another document that's got it's
own hidden formatting rules?). (It's not easy to read...)
But, in the poem, I don't know who's who: who a pinko is, or David is, and
I'm guessing Tony is you! (I guess pinkoes is plural of pinko...)
But I like the line:
"Wake up Tony and smell the napalm"
That's intruiging! Though the rest is a tad beyond me... (even if I try and
link pink and elephants... or try and think things through, linking Dumbo
with bombers and then back to elephants...) come on gizza clue! What's going
on?
Bob







>From: Tony <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: from pinko to david (second draft)
>Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:36:30 -0000
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>from pinko to david
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>the pit of the stomach
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>the denied moist eye
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>the elephantine power
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>placard-waving at Fairford's gate we were then too late
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>first Gulf War we together saw
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>bombers'
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>black
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>shadows
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>no churned body for today's chat show hosts
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>as elephants land again
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>"Don't the soft pinkoes know it's a dun' deal?"
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>"Dun, deal?  Over my dead body it's a dun deal"
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>"Wake up Tony and smell the napalm."
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>Call us what you like but
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>pass us handkerchiefs
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>pass back our voice
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>you can be Dumbo but rename us all, David
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>written by Tony Hillier of Swindon on 3 March 2003 on receiving the
>breaking news of stealth bombers creeping into Fairford RAF base UK.


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