Joe there's no doubt your two stanzas dig deeper, work better, & have more to say than the Cope, but I still sorta go with Gabe in not being too bothered by the other, which, as I suggested, might be more like a pop song than a poem, but 'funny'? well, yeah, I think so, or at least I did laugh... 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 landscape: 1 (for thomas a. clark) alongthehorizongrewanunbrokenlineoftrees bpNichol %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%