Ditto, Pat. Definitely impressed...
Doug
On 2013-10-02, at 2:22 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> That's some age pedigree all right, Pat. Could you expunge the two single line 'and's' without doing damage to the poem?
>
> Bill
>
> On 02/10/2013, at 5:08 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
>> ANCIENT
>>
>> they knew
>> that he was old
>> very old
>> even ancient
>> flaky crumbling
>> but
>> when he
>> borrowed his
>> birth certificate
>> from the vaults of
>> the British Museum
>> written in
>> Sumerian cuneiform
>> pictographic fine
>> lexical text
>> from Uruk
>> Mesopotamia
>> on a sun baked
>> clay tablet
>> and
>> signed by
>> Enmebaragisi
>> the White temple
>> high priest
>> of the sky god Anu
>> and
>> countersigned by
>> En-Hedu-Anna
>> the high priestess
>> of the goddess Inanna
>> they were
>> impressed
>> most impressed
>>
>>
>> pmcmanus
>> r388
>> in my research for names I resisted but barely
>> Shagshag - Early queen of Lagash c 2350 B.C. (during the Sumerian period?)
>> (5)
>> Some thought this poem was to long -I rather liked the layering of the cake
>> with extra goodies
>> En-Hedu-Anna I understand is the first named author of any book c4300 years
>> ago
>>
>
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