I enjoyed that one too.. & lots of the others... How to get to that age, Joe. I guess this is one way.... Doug On 22-Sep-07, at 6:00 PM, andrew burke wrote: > Go, Joe! Fine fun quatrains. I possibly didn't 'get' all the satirical > references, being an innocent Aussie, but the rhythms and rhymes > entertained me fine - like a Dylan talking blues, or Tweeter and the > Monkey Man. My favourite rhyme would have to be - > > I had brought along "Ulysses." > Joyce was always such a charmer. > But I lounged outside in that Texas breeze > Reading Philip Jose Farmer. 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 in pidgen apocalypse – how now not gag on the unward, the once-upon, us- proud planet? Dennis Lee