That's some age pedigree all right, Pat. Could you expunge the two single line 'and's' without doing damage to the poem?
Bill
On 02/10/2013, at 5:08 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> ANCIENT
>
> they knew
> that he was old
> very old
> even ancient
> flaky crumbling
> but
> when he
> borrowed his
> birth certificate
> from the vaults of
> the British Museum
> written in
> Sumerian cuneiform
> pictographic fine
> lexical text
> from Uruk
> Mesopotamia
> on a sun baked
> clay tablet
> and
> signed by
> Enmebaragisi
> the White temple
> high priest
> of the sky god Anu
> and
> countersigned by
> En-Hedu-Anna
> the high priestess
> of the goddess Inanna
> they were
> impressed
> most impressed
>
>
> pmcmanus
> r388
> in my research for names I resisted but barely
> Shagshag - Early queen of Lagash c 2350 B.C. (during the Sumerian period?)
> (5)
> Some thought this poem was to long -I rather liked the layering of the cake
> with extra goodies
> En-Hedu-Anna I understand is the first named author of any book c4300 years
> ago
>
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