Scott Milne wrote: > Taking letters at pot-shot doesn't appeal to me as poetic, so why, > dear friend, place it on a poetry link? An interestingly put question. Why, indeed, would someone post something that doesn't appeal _to you_? My great fear is that you may be subjected to things that don't appeal to you in other venues, too. I mean, the newspapers are probably loaded with things that don't appeal to you. And television. You may even meet people who don't appeal to you. What, I wonder, is to be done? The words "open-mindedness" and "reasoned critique" (or, failing that, "polite tolerance") come to mind . . . Robert Archambeau -- the user experiences no need of acting -Tom Raworth %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%