lol, it hasn't arrived at all here, yet, except in Barry's response.
P
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Halvard Johnson
> Sent: 19 September 2007 17:32
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> Subject: Re: Sonnet: Adventures on the Hippocampus
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> Damn! My stuff never goes far enough.
>
> Hal
>
> "To go is to go farther."
> --Kenneth Koch
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> On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
>
> > Hal,
> >
> > Enjoyed this as far as it goes, but its site-specific location on an
> > educational campus yields neglect of the beach-master hippopotamus
> > and the
> > seahorse possibilities. For example, check out an episode of the tv
> > show "Nature" entitled "Hippo Beach". Looking forward to a sequel.
> >
> > Barry
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:45:59 -0400, Halvard Johnson
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> > wrote:
> >
> >> Sonnet: Adventures on the Hippocampus
> >>
> >> Around noontime, we landed on the hippocampus, when squirrels
> >> were hungry, leaping from the tree branches down onto the arms
> >> of passersby, snatching away peanut butter sandwiches from them
> >> and biting, often, the hands that held them, snacks between classes.
> >>
> >> By lunchtime, we could usually no longer remember what we'd had
> >> for breakfast, and yet were almost certain that we had had something.
> >> Memories clouded by . . . well, by eleven o'clock at the latest,
> >> unless
> >> a skill at finding shortcuts helped us all become better taxi
> >> drivers.
> >>
> >> Subcortical inputs rushed around the campus-heads with their
> >> chickens cut off, by Talibansters with scimiters where their iPods
> >> should have been. Counterdemonstrations by Students Against
> >> Islamic Knowledge disrupted both pep rallies and frat hazings.
> >>
> >> But, by late afternoon, this often murky history has had its sense of
> >> relevance restored, on its way to class (Brachiation 101-elective).
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hal
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