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On 9/14/2011 8:00 AM, Patrick McManus wrote: > Thanks Tim someone read it!!!!!! > P > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Tim Allen > Sent: 14 September 2011 10:18 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: pat snap --\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\--Wednesday, 14 > September 2011 > > Lovely! > > Tim > > On 14 Sep 2011, at 08:48, Patrick McManus wrote: > >> SPRINGS >> 2011 >> >> Arab spring >> Arab youth >> Arab uprisings >> applauded >> wonderful! >> >> British spring >> British youth >> British uprisings >> condemned >> terrible! >> >> >> pmcmanus >> q903 I hate to get into politics at poetry sites because--well, you see why when I finish this post, unable to let the spring poem go by without comment, if only to get it on record that not all poets think alike politically. Uprisings against full-scale tyrants are different from uprisings against nice ladies like Queen Elizabeth, and inept politicians like Cameron who, if tyrants, are only innocuously so. Not that the British uprisings were political: they were just ways to have fun, show up the police and steal things. But, hey, Patrick, you're a good fellow and I usually like your poems. To each his own. --all best, Bob