Misreading improves almost any poem, Pat. Keep at
it.
Hal
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
--Woody Allen
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Patrick McManus <
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> Hal I read this as titled 'barcode ' worked well I seem to do a lot of
> misreading these says -might improve my poems!!
> Cheers P 'Beginning the long decline.'
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> Barcarole
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> Beautiful Russian women await you among the drowned
> mosquitoes beneath the Rialto Bridge. Plunged into love,
> a South Ossetian tour bus sinks slowly beneath the waves.
> Strains of the *Concert à quatre* float out above the piazza.
>
> Benediction's benefactor, aka Pinocchio, trails his fingers
> in the waters of the canal, then fingers his oboe, to the vast
> amusement of his gondolier. Sleepwalkers, having long
> longed to take over the city, subject both themselves and
>
> others to random interrogations. More than some marshy
> lagoon, as they say. Beginning the long decline.
>
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