That list of rubber ducks his magnum opus, presumably lost to us.
A quick quack in the distance
as if squeezed forth by the terrible hand.
Quickened. What dialogue of feather?
What beaker?
At 01:30 PM 3/20/2010, you wrote:
>There are lots of answers to this, aren't there, from denying the validity
>of terms like 'great poetry' to (excuse me, rummage in the hat) such as
>(masculine grammatic form used as common pronoun in this):
>
>Nobody at time realised the poet had written a great work, including the
>poet. He therefore returned to his former career as a road-sweeper,
>enumerating rubber ducks in his dreams at night.
>
>On 20 March 2010 16:35, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> > Excuses excuses
> > Excuses excuses
> > Excuses excuses
> > Excuses excuses
> > Excuses excuses
> > Etc
> > Love P
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Judy Prince
> > Sent: 19 March 2010 16:19
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: 25 questions: question # 3...
> >
> > Best to re-pronoun this, Tim, and with a twist or two:
> >
> > because at that point her son was calling her for cash.
> > because at that point her Squeeze was on the telly and the internet.
> > because at that point her Squeeze told her to get a life.
> > because at that point she believed she could not successfully do or redo
> > her
> > poems.
> > because at that point she had not yet figured out that she had not only a
> > son
> > and a Squeeze, a telly and the internet; she had smashing good times making
> > poems.
> >
> > Judy claiming for her gender More Than Half the media time and space
> >
> > On 19 March 2010 10:20, Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > because at that point his mum was calling him for his tea.
> > >
> > > because at that point something better was on the telly.
> > >
> > > because at that point his girlfriend told him to get a life.
> > >
> > > because at that point he tried too consciously to redo what he had
> > already
> > > done.
> > >
> > > etc
> > >
> > > Tim A.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 19 Mar 2010, at 13:46, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
> > >
> > > Question # 3: If a poet can write one or two or more great works of
> > poetry
> > >> why cannot all of his or her works be great?
> > >>
> > >> G. E. Schwartz
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >
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