Pierre: The poem in question is in A Book of Magazine Verse. It's one of
the poems for the St Louis Sports Dispatch. If your books are available it
might be good to send the poem along to the group. The line in question, if
memory doesn't garble too much, is "God is a big fat white baseball."
At 08:57 PM 4/7/2005, you wrote:
>Spicer, I think, said that the poets thought they were pitchers when in
>effect they were only catchers.
>
>Pierre
>
>On Apr 7, 2005, at 7:07 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>
>>{ I'm an atheist, which means that god is an expletive. Expletives
>>are
>>{ genderless and impartial. Spicer famously claimed that god is a
>>baseball,
>>{ but he may have been joking.
>>
>>Methinks he was a slider--or maybe a knuckleball.
>>
>>Hal "Poetic statements are no more actual statements
>> than the peaches visible in a still life are actual
>> dessert."
>> --Susanne K. Langer
>>
>>Halvard Johnson
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>>website: http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
>>blog: http://entropyandme.blogspot.com/
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