Well, that may be; I've done it, & it has worked upon occasion. So I neither push it nor deny it; depends upon the situation.... In other words, Andrew, it depends....? Doug On 24-Jan-10, at 6:04 AM, Jeffrey Side wrote: > I think procedural poetry > is a symptom of writer’s block. Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html Swept snow, Li Po, by dawn's 40-watt moon to the road that hies to office away from home. Lorine Niedecker