dear doug, i am with you - if that can mean anything, wish you well for this
poem of yours that i particularly like,
i should write a similar one stating:
i hate italians, --- and might soon,
:-)
> Always the outsider
>
>
> I am not English; I am of the people.
> I am not Scottish; I was born in Durham.
>
> I am not educated; I studied mathematics.
> I am not a UNIX wizard; I am of the poets.
>
> I was defeated at Arderydd; I hid in the Black Mountain.
> I sang before Vortigern; victory over the Saxon.
>
> I hate the Welsh; an inferior nation.
> I like America; its technocratic culture.
>
> I don't believe in Love; I am Orpheus.
> I don't believe in God; I am the Devil.
>
> I am of the village; I am of the city.
> I have praised the moon; I have swum the ocean.
>
> I am of the Dark Age; after the Fall of Troy.
> I am Rangers and Celtic; the Glasgow Saturday night.
>
> I am the barbarian; deprived of faith and kindness.
> I am the magician; living my seasons in hell.
>
> I have come pure from the beginning;
> I have become twisted and coarsened as the years sped by;
> I have seen the end of everything;
> And still I survive.
>
>
> Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
> Lynx: Poetry from Bath ..........
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
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