on 2/5/07 5:32 PM, Janet Jackson at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> And poems had to rhyme, I'll bet.
>
> Janet
>
>> Shower Parade
>> (conscription, Auckland, 1956)
> ...
>> (Sodom her family never mentions -
>> the very word makes good folk anxious,
yes, unless they were in strict blank verse as in Tennyson, whom we
memorized at school, and rhymes as bad as mine were OK only in comic verse.
Max
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