Hi Patrick
read the first word of every line down & you get the sentence from
Elytis (which I came across in a ms of essays I was reading
yesterday)....
Doug
On 26-Jan-06, at 12:52 AM, Patrick Mc Manus wrote:
> Dear Douglas as the pig ignorant one here(actually pigs are
> clever??)what's
> this bit
> Re-(word/line acrostic on a sentence from Odysseus Elytis)
> All about??
> And this is max bygraves ??re-things ain't what they used to be
> P sic sic P haha re saxon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
> Sent: 26 January 2006 04:12
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: snap 25 I 06
>
> We are in charge here so
> don't mess with us We can
> eavesdrop on anyone anytime
> enough of them are found
> on no solid ground
> the law we ignored in
> secret no longer counts whole
> conversations captured
> among those we know as enemy
>
> things ain't what they used to be
>
> Douglas Barbour
> Wednesday January 25 2006
> (word/line acrostic on a sentence from Odysseus Elytis)
>
>
>
> Douglas Barbour
> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> (780) 436 3320
>
> it's Sappho I said, on the radio
>
> Daphne Marlatt
>
>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
it's Sappho I said, on the radio
Daphne Marlatt
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