that was a pleasure to read Jon. :D giggled, thanks.
I think I'd teach my budgie "these things astonish me beyond words"
KS
On 06/10/06, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Big Crit
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> Big Crit authorizes any person who has been called a poet in print to
> wear an arm-band bearing the Happy Face.
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> Big Crit decrees that anyone who wins a poetry prize shall in respect of
> that honor give all subsequent public readings of his or her poetry
> while wearing Groucho glasses.
>
> Big Crit hereby commissions the production of an anthology to contain
> every poem ever published in which a television set appears, all
> copies of which are immediately to be burnt.
>
> Big Crit ordains that henceforth all love poems shall be printed in
> mauve ink on lavender paper and all war poems shall be printed in
> Gothic type and all poems about poetry shall be printed upside-down
> and backwards and all poems about one's grandmother shall be printed
> in black ink on black paper.
>
> Big Crit enacts that from now on the verbal content of all paid
> political advertisements shall consist solely of excerpts from the
> plays of Aristophanes.
>
> Big Crit orders all those possessing a budgerigar to teach said avian
> to recite one line from the verse of William Carlos Williams;
>
> and Big Crit further declares April 25th of each year to be Annual
> Bird Bard day, on which the recitation of poetry shall be forbidden
> to all but parakeets, so that there may be no ideas but in budgies.
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