Ah, you caught it --- yes, I wanted "fans" to suggest (also) someone Even
Bigger than T. Kinkade .... If you have a taste for disgusting hypocrisy and
sheer craziness, the Wikipedia bio of him makes for good reading. --- Happy
new year, Doug, and do you HAVE TO SHOVEL SNOW IN MINUS 18 DEGREE WEATHER???
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: 2 poems. Happy New Year.
>I suspect it was just everyone was too busy to read & respond at that
>moment, Fred. I l know I was.
>
> Before I looked him up (never having had the pleasure of learning about
> him before), I thought that this --
> Passing these
> in the window of one of his outlets
> or of a Christian bookstore,
> I think how nice it must be
> to have fans.
>
> -- referred to Him rather than him. And maybe it does anyway.
>
> The War on Drugs Will Continue
> is an even sadder tale, nicely torqued to cynicism (at least for me).
>
> Good 'uns.
>
> Doug
>
> On 31-Dec-08, at 10:18 AM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
>
>> My last apparently didn't go over well, so I'll bid farewell to '08 with
>> these two:
>>
>> Painter of Light
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> Holy hath beris
> As rede as any rose
>
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