Patrick you could find yourself with a VSB : a Vile and Schrodinger's Boris 2008/8/3 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>: > Tad sounds like you could be busy here I do wonder how many emails are sort > of self generating /from aliens -or other artificial intelligences and I > keep an eye on VB (our cat) > Cheers P > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of TheOldMole > Sent: 02 August 2008 19:51 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Dead Snap > > The dead keep texting me, > emails, voice mails, > they say they've settled on > > me as their spokesman. > They don't say why. > Perhaps it was spam, > > they were phishing, > I got suckered, > like those Nigerian > > bank accounts. > They want people, > not necessarily > > their loved ones, whom > they've mostly forgotten, > to know the truth: > > death is a scam, > a bait and switch, > don't be taken in. > > -- > Tad Richards > http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ > http://opusforty.blogspot.com/ > > The moral is this: in American verse, > The better you are, the pay is worse. > --Corey Ford > -- David Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk