Mark thanks for a poem from elsewhere in the midst of the complaints (often a laugh) & countercomplaints back & forth... but you don't think much of political verse? if this isn't that, what is it? Douglas Barbour Department of English University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm Confessional verse an exercise in the liar's paradox: compulsion is my theme he said, four times. Mark Cochrane