Try reading it as an absolute phrase, Andrew, disguised
as a sentence.
Hal
"Time is what keeps us waiting."
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On Sep 1, 2007, at 9:06 PM, andrew burke wrote:
> The last 'sentence' seems to need an active sentence.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 02/09/07, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> You go, grrrl!
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Sonnet: Late Arrivals
>>>
>>> Late to arrive, we found all the city's hotels to be
>>> full,
>>> a convention of Russian orthographists conducting
>>> their
>>> orgy-porgies everywhere, jamming the elevators,
>>> filling
>>> the bar stools, pinching the bottoms as they passed.
>>>
>>> Later we learned that to join their number, their
>>> union,
>>> their guild, all one need do was spell John
>>> Ashbery's name
>>> correctly and buy them all a beer. Almost as much
>>> fun
>>> as having Lyme disease, someone said. Sardonically.
>>>
>>> Of late, Tashkent has been really difficult to live
>>> in, what
>>> with all the rules governing matters as trivial as
>>> the proper
>>> disposal of bottles and bottle caps. Taxicabs
>>> (unmetered)
>>> full of unrivalled dignitaries armed to the teeth
>>> with the
>>>
>>> latest weaponry smuggled in from Turkmenistan and
>>> other
>>> blatant violators of worldwide nonproliferation
>>> agreements.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hal
>>>
>>> Halvard Johnson
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>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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