----- Original Message ----- From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 10:54 PM Subject: Re: Sonnet: A Little Story I cannot just sit here and say nothing - The sonnet applies perfectly to our Little Johnnie Howard who is hanging on to the reins of power here by the skin of his teeth - and by the fuck-ups (in past elections) by the Labour opposition. (Nice mixed metaphors, I think.) I enjoyed it very much, Hal. Andrew I did too. All too widely applicable as a political poem. Good work.