AH, but you did apply it, Andrew?
I like that...
Doug
On 2011-07-01, at 3:39 AM, andrew burke wrote:
> Well, as a rather 'small, fat, bald man' I am pleased with the
> similarity. It probably stops there though.
>
> When George Macbeth was in Perth, he expressed a theory that poets
> wrote poems in a shape similar to their frame. As we have tall, short,
> thin and fat poets in this town, much mirth was had applying this
> theory!
>
> Andrew
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