kasper salonen wrote: > ah youth. > good stuff, 1st st esp > > KS Odd, because I am not much on it right now. I suppose I wrote it as an antidote to Valentine's Day. Very promising in that the "usual" roles were reversed with the speaker a sentimental male and the woman more interested in "going for it"; and that the twists of the language in that first stanza were fun to do even if they got a bit excessive. I suppose in any rewrite the entire Browning-Barrett business has to go. If I'm still thinking about the poem after a few days I may have at it again. Cold-bloodedly:-). KW -------------------- Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came."