Actually, Pat, only the first of those is entirely correct.
Here are the others:
2. When you try to explain it.
and
3. When he finds a way to tell it better.
Hal
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Patrick McManus <
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> If you tell a joke to a poet, he will laugh three times.
>
> 1. When you tell it.
> 2. When you explain it.
> 3. When he gets it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Ken Wolman
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> Subject: Re: snap; sort of
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> andrew burke wrote:
> > Yes, Doug, and I am unlikely to paraphrase it, even if I could. I must
> > admit I like poems that can't be paraphrased: a poem that is a poem and
> > couldn't be in prose is one of my 'highest' aims. (Not always one I
> reach,
> I
> > hasten to add.)
> >
>
> Paraphrase. I have committed enough paragraphs with line breaks to last
> me a lifetime. I probably always will.
>
> Which reminds me:
>
> If you tell a joke to a peasant, he will laugh three times.
>
> 1. When you tell it.
> 2. When you explain it.
> 3. When he gets it.
>
> KW
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