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"You're joking, right? If there are 'tricks' employed by mediocre poets they were/ are rhyme and meter. I say we should invent a contraceptive for the fountain pen and give it to every one of the Larkinite exponents of Island English, as Bernstein called it." Thanks Scott, it had never occurred to me that rhyme and metre could be tricks too. Even as I type, I'm pulling a Featherlite over my fountain pen with one fat hand, while dabbing calamine lotion on the fleabites with the other. R %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%