Ah, we 'serious guys' just sit back & watch, Mairead.
And remember that JoN started all of this, with some sense that all
USAmerican poetry 'sucks' as asserted by Simic way back when in a quote
from his Introduction to a new anthology of (old?) British poetry...
But then I would never touch a Minty being a chocolate man myself....
Doug
On 2-Jan-05, at 10:07 PM, Mairead Byrne wrote:
> This is driving me MAD! I'm going to throw myself at the roof of a
> house and SUCK it right off!! Jeepers. I bow out of this discussion.
> I'm scared of the way it's heading.
> Mammy! Bring back the serious guys. They don't make everything
> disintegrate! they consolidate! Give me an old haw lantern or a
> spirit
> level and I'll gnaw at it anyway.
> Mmmm
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Although they are
Only breath, words
which I command
are immortal
Sappho (Mary Barnard trans)
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