Cheers Doug bothers me as well
P in gorgeous late hot Raynes Park summer
-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
Sent: 05 September 2012 19:53
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: pat snap _-(*)-_^_-(*)-_^_-(*)-_Wednesday, 05 September 2012
It's that non specific / other that bothers me....
Doug
On 2012-09-05, at 6:11 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Well Bill thanks but the fine is to have to read other peoples ghastly
> (specially selected ) poems for hours in a hot airless hall to a
> belligerent audience of nasties without break P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 05 September 2012 11:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: pat snap _-(*)-_^_-(*)-_^_-(*)-_Wednesday, 05 September
> 2012
>
> Otherwise what, Pat? If no warning attached, do verse fines apply or
> do you land in a bardic dungeon with blackened walls and only a
> sharpened bootlace with which to inscribe?
>
> On 05/09/2012, at 6:51 PM, Patrick McManus
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> POET
>>
>> he was instructed
>> by the Inspectorate
>> of Health and Safety
>> and the Trading
>> Standards Authority
>> that in future
>> all his poems
>> must come with
>> a warning
>> of possible
>> side effects
>> such as
>> flatulence
>> stomach pains
>> diarrhoea
>> eruptions
>> constipation
>> itchiness
>> tiredness
>> insomnia
>> nightmares
>> or
>> non specific
>> other
>>
>>
>> pmcmanus
>> r149
>>
>>
>
Douglas Barbour
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