Yes, Mr. Hal Sonnet, I like this one.
Global warming will probably bring real Baboons to the edges of the San Francisco Bay.
As well as the ghost of Marianne Moore. For Real.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Sonnet: Hard Trills
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 9:10 AM
Okay, Hal, I'll happily join that 'all.'
Just another humble pebble, singing in the choir...
Doug
Quoting "Halvard Johnson" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Sonnet: Hard Trills
>
> Rolling r's in Spanish is not as easy as rolling
> drunken sailors on shore-leave in Lisboa, nor
> as hard as rolling cigarettes with one hand tied
> behind one's back. Gathering maple sap for
>
> sugar may be easiest of all if you watch your
> footing in the snow, and your Portuguese
> might come in handy if you're ever in Macao.
>
> Even humble pebbles need to watch where
> they're going, even when it's only to Roslyn's
> house over by the forest by the ocean and
>
> its shore. Baboons come in around line eleven,
> but don't hang around for long. Nixon invaded
> Cambodia and Kent State University but never
> took on Oxford. Let's all thank him for that.
>
>
> Halvard Johnson
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>
Douglas Barbour
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