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i have had my ups and downs
but wotthehell wotthehell
yesterday sceptres and crowns
fried oysters and velvet gowns
and today i herd with bums
but wotthehell wotthehell
i wake the world from sleep
as i caper and sing and leap
when i sing my wild free tune
wotthehell wotthehell
under the blear eyed moon
i am pelted with cast off shoon
but wotthehell wotthehell
do you think that i would change
my present freedom to range
for a castle or moated grange
wotthehell wotthehell
cage me and i d go frantic
my life is so romantic
capricious and corybantic
and i m toujours gai toujours gai
i know that i am bound
for a journey down the sound
in the midst of a refuse mound
but wotthehell wotthehell
oh i should worry and fret
death and i will coquette
there s a dance in the old dame yet
toujours gai toujours gai
i once was an innocent kit
wotthehell wotthehell
with a ribbon my neck to fit
and bells tied onto it
o wotthehell wotthehell
but a maltese cat came by
with a come hither look in his eye
and a song that soared to the sky
and wotthehell wotthehell
and i followed adown the street
the pad of his rhythmical feet
o permit me again to repeat
wotthehell wotthehell
my youth i shall never forget
but there s nothing i really regret
wotthehell wotthehell
there s a dance in the old dame yet
toujours gai toujours gai
the things that i had not ought to
i do because i ve gotto
wotthehell wotthehell
and i end with my favorite motto
toujours gai toujours gai
Thank you, O inimitable Don Marquis
MC Ward wrote:
> "Wottehell" is forbidden (everybody knows that).
>
> Snarkily (sp?) yours,
> Candice
>
>
>
> --- Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>> You can post what you like if you're a private
>> individual; if you post
>> representing an organisation, well, yes, from the
>> organisation's POV,
>> yes, it does matter. For a start, you wouldn't get
>> snarky threads like
>> this happening. If the Editor of the Guardian writes
>> to me, then I
>> expect his missives to be perfect and in good order,
>> if the missive is
>> full of spelling mistakes then well ... OTOH, if
>> Alan Rusbridger
>> writes to me as one individual to another, even on
>> an open forum, then
>> wottehell. I don't care. He can even say shit or
>> fuck if he wants. So
>> I guess the answer to your question is contextual.
>> If you email the
>> forum with news of an event/organisation, then,
>> unless the email
>> states otherwise, I will assume that there is
>> connection between you
>> and that event/organisation.
>>
>> Is there a point in being anal? I guess,
>> unfortunately, that's my job;
>> that's what computer scientists and engineers do
>> best. They dance on
>> pin-heads for a living, arguing about the validity
>> or watchemacallit
>> of symbols, signs and semantics. It's the comic-book
>> guy from the
>> Simpsons, but worse. However, as text-smiths, if we
>> aren't anal about
>> words, and you take analness to be some sort of
>> measure of care,
>> absorption etc, what do we care about?
>>
>> As for the usage of the word "shit", it's not the
>> word that's the
>> issue, it's who it was said by (forum moderator) is
>> a slight issue.
>> Speaking as an ordinary list-member, I don't mind if
>> list-members use
>> the words shit and fuck in any and every email, but,
>> like it or not,
>> once you're the forum moderator, added-value get's
>> attached to any
>> email you send, whatever the context.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> On 4/2/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> So if I post that the Wallace Stevens Journal, for
>>>
>> which I am an editor, is
>>
>>> interested in poems dealing with Stevens' life &
>>>
>> themes, it's not really me
>>
>>> posting? How does that transformation occur? And
>>>
>> is the entity that posts in
>>
>>> my place to be held to more exacting editorial
>>>
>> standards than me, when I
>>
>>> post as myself?
>>>
>>> jd
>>>
>>> On 4/2/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> He's posting for ICORN, not as an individual.
>>>>
>> ICORN, whose aims I
>>
>>>> sympathise with, is supposed to be a "literary"
>>>>
>> quarterly involved in
>>
>>>> the translation of poetry, has been advertised
>>>>
>> by an email which
>>
>>>> contains at least two major spelling mistakes
>>>>
>> concerning a poet's name
>>
>>>> and one of his better poems; I notice the rest
>>>>
>> of the email was
>>
>>>> immaculate. Maybe I expect too much; but you
>>>>
>> expect no one to comment?
>>
>>>> This list is full of smart-arses, that's one of
>>>>
>> it's speicial
>>
>>>> qualities. I remember someone calling it the
>>>>
>> awkward squad.
>>
>>>> Roger
>>>>
>>>> On 4/2/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Ren Powell is a member of this, uh, community.
>>>>>
>> Posts to the list from
>>
>>>>> members are not, by definition, "spam." In
>>>>>
>> fact, it is quite common for
>>
>>>>> members to post announcements to the list
>>>>>
>> about various journals,
>>
>>>> readings,
>>>>
>>>>> etc. And if we all posted corrections to each
>>>>>
>> others typos &
>>
>>>> misspellings we
>>>>
>>>>> would crash the server.
>>>>>
>>>>> jd
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4/2/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>>>> Greetings BenjiMouse. Just in time to
>>>>>>
>> witness the, uh, shit hitting
>>
>>>> the
>>>>
>>>>>> fan.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> re: Wellfed Owens: fine by me if Poetry orgs
>>>>>>
>> wish to spam this list,
>>
>>>>>> at least they should get the poetry bits
>>>>>>
>> correctly spelled etc o'wise
>>
>>>>>> it dents their credibility, no?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Roger
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/2/07, Robin Hamilton
>>>>>>
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>>>>>> From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There is a life elsewhere.
>>>>>>>> mj
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No there isn't -- ask Coriolanus. Or
>>>>>>>
>> Cavafy, in "The City".
>>
>>>>>>> PedantMouse
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>>>>>> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious."
>>>>>>
>> Oscar Wilde
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Joseph Duemer
>>>>> Professor of Humanities
>>>>> Clarkson University
>>>>> [sharpsand.net]
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>>>> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar
>>>>
>> Wilde
>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joseph Duemer
>>> Professor of Humanities
>>> Clarkson University
>>> [sharpsand.net]
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde
>>
>>
>
>
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