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Rebecca, will answer yr question in a couple of days... going out tonite to get drunk and stoned with the mercedes set so must behave myself for once! Chris Jones. On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 20:46, Rebecca Seiferle wrote: > Hi, Chris, > > I like this almost prose poem particularly at the beginning, "Deception > by the one who deceives," etc., it has a poetic ring to it, but I can't > follow as well in the last part of the paragraph particularly with that > bit about poets knowing only how to lie, if it is lying, it is so the > inverse of the lying by the one who wishes to deceive, or this > political example of the 'capture' of Saddam, that it must be close > to telling the truth! > > We were just talking about this the other day, and how the story > of Saddam's having first been captured, in a blood feud, and > held, drugged, interrogated and tortured by the Kurds, then left > in that concrete hole where 'we got 'im' was buried on page 24 > of some well-known newspaper, though it's probably a better > newspaper for having carried it at all. > > Best, > > > Rebecca > > Rebecca Seiferle