Ha! Doug On 9-Jan-07, at 7:04 PM, Janet Jackson wrote: > Woman's life is a cheat and a disappointment: > everything is real, > and dreams are disappointing. > The fire to stoke, the cat to feed, > the floor to mop after the children's party. > The prize awarded for the English essay, > the scholar's degree and the shares in the company: > these things become regrets. Woman passes > from unreality to bloody reality. > > ;-) > > Janet Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Late night resurrection of a forgotten love, a vanished civilization, where the waning moon is the accusational eye of a discarded lover. . . . Love’s absence is still love, the heart a celestial wound. Christopher Dewdney