Ok, Dave, call me a skeptic, but this is getting a bit far-fetched, Dodo, and all,
maybe I've been on the internet too long but this being 'skinned' sounds a bit
like playing the 'they're (could just as easily be 'he' or 'she', not to discriminate
among pronouns) after me' to the hilt, and, well, does this K. Barry _exist_? and
what 'local' poetic culture? you mean this small village where they like to eats
birds?
Well, sorry, if I'm not taking this seriously enough. But I like dodos, who says
they're extinct?
best,
Rebecca
---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 23:45:34 -0000
>From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Local Poetic Culture
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>Slightly recovered here now, as matters have now risen to the level of
>apparent death-threats to me, or at least being 'cut up' or 'bled' or
>'skinned' by persons unknown. I might re-iterate that behind all this was my
>lack of veneration for a local poet, who, I must add, was in now way
>directly responsible for what developed, and is from all reports quite
>appalled by it all, but my original crime, which has now been compounded
>from talking too loud without respect to ruining a drug-dealer's pitch and
>trade in our dear arts centre, hence the alleged threats (if real)
>
>but here's an example of the maestro's work, for not liking which
>sufficiently I have been hit, threatened, insulted, barred, vilified and
>generally trod upon:
>
>The Dodo
>
>It's sad the dodo is extinct
>when once the creature winked and blinked
>and in a manner so succinct;
>
>on that far-off Mauritius isle
>the sailors treated dodos vile -
>were only out to make a pile
>
>they introduced domestic pets
>and caught the dodo in their nets,
>on its survival hedged their bets
>
>and, growing grossly overweight -
>its diet got in such a state -
>ship's crews ate dodos off a plate!
>
>With quaint physique it might have filled
>the place of some bright bird that trilled
>of slimmer, more athletic build
>
>but that was not to be the case -
>odd beaks and feet, and funny face,
>it's disappeared without a trace!
>
>from 'Building New Bridges'
>
>copyright K. Berry 2000.
>
>
>best
>
>Dave
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